2 posts and columns on outplacement

AOL Begins Firing Employees Who Wouldn’t Leave

in Media on January 11, 2010 at 9:33 am PT

In November, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong said he needed 2,500 “volunteers” to give up their jobs, but not enough of them got the message–only 1,100 walked away on their own. Now Armstrong is entering the second phase of his corporate slimdown and is firing another 1,000-plus employees.

More Layoffs for Google: 200 Axed From Sales

in Media on March 26, 2009 at 12:52 pm PT

Google is laying off 200 people from its sales and marketing group, the company announced today in a blog posting. Google has some 20,000 employees, so the scale of the sackings isn’t earth-shaking news. But the fact that they come from the group that Tim Armstrong ran until he decamped for AOL is interesting.