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It's also self-inflicted pain: if you keep inflating wages you keep inflating home prices, which makes it even harder to attract people in. Google is doing everything it can to cut costs, closing daycares, tracking who eats, but they have literally acres of empty, brand-new real estate. I suspect another round of layoffs may be coming. And I doubt they'll do the "random selection" again. The smart ones at the fringes started bolting for the doors in December.