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.
"These are important moments to sharpen our focus, reengineer our cost base, and direct our talent and capital to our highest priorities,"
Can't imagine being evil enough to write something so slimy
When they gave up the "Don't be evil" mantra, they really went all in.
Christ I at least got a fucking text message when I was laid off out of nowhere
This is just wasting people's fucking time
Tech companies being absolutely terrified of their laid off workforce is really something else to witness.
Wait, the US doesn't have a lot of labor friendly laws, but doesn't the WARN act prevent this? Or, I suppose, at least have some consequences when it does happen?
I'm mostly ignorant about labor laws but it certainly seems to me that when it comes to enforcement (and punishnment) - the laws are a sick joke.
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
