Silicon Valley Giant Google to Lay Off 12,000 Workers - NBC Bay Area
Google is laying off 12,000 workers, or about 6% of its workforce, becoming the latest tech company to trim staff as the economic boom that the industry rode during the COVID-19 pandemic ebbed.
most of these are circumvented by not firing you, but paying you to do nothing for the period of time you would normally get warned, you're technically still employed, just not allowed to touch anything
Ah, that makes sense.