Google minus 100 positions at the HR department

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/changes-to-recruiting.html

... and minus Austin (Texas), Trondheim (Norway) and Lulea (Sweden) – no jobs lost.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/changes-to-engineering.html

PS: Did they wait for the Steve Jobs to take a leave of absence to make this announcement (hiding bad news behind louder bad news)?

[Moved from "Changes to Google's recruiting done" – Tony]

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/changes-to-recruiting.html

"As we made clear during our last quarterly earnings call in October, Google is still hiring but at a reduced rate. Given the state of the economy, we recognized that we needed fewer people focused on hiring.
...."

and "...we need to go further and reduce the overall size of our recruiting organization by approximately 100 positions."