'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg sound the alarm

Zuckerberg noticed that it was getting harder to get all the employees to attend a meeting as they were sometimes taking time out in a day for personal work

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With global recession fears looming, some of the biggest names in the technology world have some ominous words to spare: Big Tech has hired more people, but only some of them are doing the work.

Meta (earlier Facebook) Founder Mark  Zuckerberg fired the first salvo. It was the weekly Q&A on June 30, and  he had said that the economy was headed for the “worst downturns that we’ve seen in recent history”. 

Then he continued. 

First Published: Aug 08 2022 | 9:11 PM IST

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