[hiddencost]

Happy engineers do better work. Half the reason Google is really falling on its face right now is that management has made it clear to eng that we're not respected the way we were 10 years ago. So we no longer go above and beyond for our employer because they no longer go above and beyond for us.

Doing less work is a classic and reasonable negotiating tactic for employees.

Employees are counter parties to any negotiation and they're not as powerless as big companies like to make them feel.

[propogandist]

Outside of the ads group the majority of Google’s rest and vest workforce delivers little shareholder value

[beebmam]

What evidence do you have for your claim?

[propogandist]

80% of company revenues driven by ads

[andsoitis]

Perception is reality.

[beebmam]

That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

[andsoitis]

The saying is simply the idea that someone can have a mental impression of something, and it defines how they see that something, regardless of the truth.

It doesn’t seem that controversial to me and certainly isn’t literal.