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November 26, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Internet search powerhouse Google (www.google.com) is significantly reducing its contract worker staff, which number around 10,000, but the company has no current plans to lay off employees, according to a Wall Street Journal report Tuesday.
Spokeswoman Jane Penner told the Wall Street Journal, "We have been thinking for some time, before the acute phase of the economic crisis, about significantly reducing the number of contract workers."
Google did not specify how many contract workers are on the chopping block, nor the schedule for the layoffs.
At the end of the third quarter, Google had 20,123 company employees and roughly 10,000 contractors, according to the report.
UK technology news site The Register (www.theregister.co.uk) has reported that it may be good news for some contractors that are treated like "second class citizens," according to an unnamed�former employee. Contract employees, according to the source, are denied access from company events including its famous TGIF weekly get togethers, and certain perks such as a free ride on the Google shuttle bus.
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October 2009 - Web Hosting's All Star Team
This has been, for us, one of the most interesting, exciting and challenging build-ups to an issue of the magazine yet, Web Hosting's All Star Team. The balloting process was our first experiment with a kind of user participation we're planning to do a lot more with in the months to come. We had thousands of ballots submitted, with hundreds of write-in suggestions and a demonstration of user engagement that has us feeling super positive about the project.
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July 2009 - What am I Worth?
One of the interesting luxuries of working on a project like the printed WHIR magazine is that it allows us to play with things like our point of view from one issue to the next. In recent months we've been giving added attention to the kind of practical and applicable advice aimed at smaller hosts and resellers. This issue carries on with that point of view, asking, in our cover story, "what am I worth?" It's a complicated question without a clear-cut answer.
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May 2009 - The Blueprint for a Small Web Host
I was a little surprised by how difficult it became to see this idea through. We set out to assemble a blueprint for a small hosting business, but butted up pretty quickly against the general impossibility of covering all the territory that was out there to be covered. The basic constraints of a printed magazine, and the less-than-infinite amount of time we had available forced us to face the fact that we could never produce an exhaustive guide to starting a hosting company.
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