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Google workers’ performances since Covid-19 pandemic to be reviewed as part of Irish job cuts

The tech giant will assess workers’ ratings as one of the criteria that will decide who is laid off, as fears grow that it will impose compulsory redundancies on low performers

Google’s offices at Grand Canal Dock: the company employs around 8,000 people here between full-time staff and contractors. Picture: Getty

Google employees’ performance ratings over the last two and a half years are being reviewed as part of the tech giant’s decisions on redundancies, the Business Post has established.

The company will assess workers’ ratings across the last four “cycles” – periods over which Google staff are graded on their performance by managers – as one of the criteria it will use to meet 240 job cuts in Ireland.

The company has recently changed its ...