05-23-2022, 05:37 PM
(05-23-2022, 01:41 PM)tomh009 Wrote: It's not really a new thing. For example, GM Canada's HQ was long separated from their primary nexus of operations. HQ usually identifies the location of (that country's) top management. Other departments may be there or elsewhere. And it has been so for decades, nay, centuries.
That's my point though, what does it mean to have a country's "top management" ? Google isn't run as a regionalized operation. KW Googlers don't have a reporting chain that runs through Toronto. I don't think there is such a thing as Canadian top management at Google.
I work for Cisco, and most people would consider our Toronto office the Canadian HQ. But the only top management there is the "Canada Lead" , which is a sales division position. For those of us not part of sales there effectively isn't any top management in Toronto, or anywhere else in Canada. It's not uncommon at my work for someone in Canada to report to someone in France, who reports to someone in the UK, who reports to someone in the US, who... you get the idea. It's one globally integrated operation, with the only meaningful cluster of top management being the global HQ in San Jose, California.