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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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Bad news for Indian IT engineers: Google pauses green card applications from employees

Bad news for Indian IT engineers: Google pauses green card applications from employees

In an email, Google has reportedly informed people about its decision to pause new green card applications and mentioned that this is pretty difficult for them, but employees should be aware of this move. New Delhi,UPDATED: Jan 23, 2023 13:45 IST Google just announced the layoff of 12,000 employees across globe and the company now has one more bad news for IT engineers. By Ankita Garg: Google just announced the layoff of 12,000 employees across the globe and the company now has one more bad… Source link

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Google lays off most employees part of its Area 120 incubator

Google lays off most employees part of its Area 120 incubator

Google’s Area 120 division has been severely affected by the layoffs happening across Alphabet, according to Bloomberg and TechCrunch, which said the unit now has fewer than 100 employees after the most recent round of cuts. Area 120 is known as Google’s in-house incubator, which works on experimental apps and products. Those include GameSnacks, an HTML5-based platform that enables users to load and play games quickly even on poor connections and basic smartphones. Sundar Pichai established… Source link

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Google lays off most employees part of its Area 120 incubator

Google lays off most employees part of its Area 120 incubator

Google’s Area 120 division has been severely affected by the layoffs happening across Alphabet, according to Bloomberg and TechCrunch, which said the unit now has fewer than 100 employees after the most recent round of cuts. Area 120 is known as Google’s in-house incubator, which works on experimental apps and products. Those include GameSnacks, an HTML5-based platform that enables users to load and play games quickly even on poor connections and basic smartphones. Sundar Pichai established… Source link

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