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Google nixes paying out remainder of maternity and medical leave for laid-off employees – CNBC

Google nixes paying out remainder of maternity and medical leave for laid-off employees – CNBC

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Google nixes paying out remainder of maternity and medical leave for laid-off employees  CNBC Google won’t pay remaining parental or medical leave for laid-off employees  Engadget Google workers hit back at CEO over layoffs: ‘Nowhere have workers’ voices been adequately been considered’  Fortune Source link

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Google testing ChatGPT-like chatbot ‘Apprentice Bard’ with employees

Google testing ChatGPT-like chatbot ‘Apprentice Bard’ with employees

A man walks through Google offices on January 25, 2023 in New York City. Leonardo Munoz | Corbis News | Getty Images Google is testing new artificial intelligence-powered chat products that are likely to influence a future public product launch. They include a new chatbot and a potential way to integrate it into a search engine. The Alphabet company is working on a project under its cloud unit called “Atlas,” which is a “code red” effort to respond to ChatGPT, the large-language chatbot… Source link

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Laid-off Google employees vent about being unable to say goodbye to colleagues and feeling ‘blindsided’ by ‘random’ culling

Laid-off Google employees vent about being unable to say goodbye to colleagues and feeling ‘blindsided’ by ‘random’ culling

Many Google employees were having a normal day on Jan. 20 before their lives were turned upside-down. Some workers had gotten their jobs at the tech giant after years of dreaming about it, and others had been there for over a decade. Then suddenly that morning Google’s parent, Alphabet, announced that it was cutting 12,000 jobs. In doing so, it joined a long list of tech companies that have eliminated scores of employees in recent months. An outpouring followed on social media, including… Source link

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