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Google Layoffs: How to Reverse a 55% Stock Decline

Visiting Google recently, I've noticed one small sign of these so-called "layoffs". The Googleplex has 4 buildings, with entrances a few tens of feet from each other. Until recently, each of them had a "visitor lobby", manned with receptionists; the other day, I noticed only one of the lobbies was manned, the other three are now marked "employees entrance" (employees can get in from all of those entrances, and more, by sweeping their badges).

So that's quite a few temp/contractor receptionists "laid off", I'm sure. Is it "madness" as you say? Pah: I say it was a waste before -- those extra temps added nothing to Google's business, and as a stockholder I'm quite happy that Google is FINALLY moving to *cut all waste*, big and small. So now when I visit I need to go to a specific lobby -- the one that's manned -- rather than wonder which of the four is right... big furry deal! Wish they'd done it before, but I'm glad to see their new CFO has gotten started the RIGHT way.

I could say the same of the "tea service" that used to interrupt some meetings and seem to have disappeared (now if you want tea you go to the "microkitchens" and make it yourself, instead of having tea service go around meeting rooms with a cart -- AGAIN, *big furry deal*!), the valet parking, the vast numbers of uniformed security guards who once roamed the grounds -- HIGH TIME the firm cut such wasteful frills!