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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Dozens of Google employees laid off in San Francisco  KRON4 Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google techie, laid off on H-1B visa, shares 5 ways immigrants can ‘embrace’ job loss  Hindustan Times Source link

The entire YouTube Music team is out of a job after going on strike last year. Some of the workers were lobbying for support for their union at an Austin City Council meeting. A Google spokesperson said the move was a regular contract termination. The entire YouTube Music team is out of a job as tensions rise at Google parent company, Alphabet. The Alphabet Workers Union, which represents workers at Google’s parent company, Alphabet, said Google laid off the YouTube Music team on Friday. Some of… Source link

Turns out Google’s postpandemic reckoning didn’t just hit the Google Hardware team responsible for Pixel, Nest, and Fitbit products — it’s taken similarly sized bites out of Google’s core engineering and Google Assistant teams too. Google just confirmed to The Verge that it’s eliminated “a few hundred” roles in each of these divisions, meaning Google has confirmed layoffs of around a thousand employees on Wednesday alone, if we use a reasonable definition of “few.” And… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Indian-American Google employee laid off at 2am, thought layoff email was spam and ignored it  India Today Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google Cuts Company Protecting People From Surveillance To A ‘Skeleton Crew,’ Say Laid Off Workers  Forbes Source link

Google announced on January 20 that it was laying off 12,000 staff, or around 6.4% of its workforce.Aly Song/Reuters A Google recruiter learned she was laid off in the middle of the night while on maternity leave. Google is known for its generous benefits, including up to 24 weeks of parental leave. Other Google staff say they were laid off while on parental and carers’ leave. A Google recruiter on maternity leave said she found out she was laid off in the middle of the night while feeding her… Source link

Google’s head of mental health and wellbeing was laid off after 15 years working for the company. Kristin Maczko said it had been her “dream role,” and that many people on her team were let go. Current and former Google staff say they can’t find the rationale behind the layoffs. … Source link

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google’s parent company Alphabet, announced on January 20 that around 12,000 employees would be cut.Mateusz Wlodarczyk/NurPhoto/Getty Images Former Googler Nicholas Dufau said he felt “acutely expendable” after being laid off via email. He wrote on LinkedIn that he discovered he’d lost his job while feeding his newborn daughter at 2 a.m. Google said on January 20 it was laying off 12,000 workers. A former Google employee said he felt “acutely expendable” upon discovering… Source link

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google’s parent company Alphabet, announced on January 20 that around 12,000 employees would be cut.Mateusz Wlodarczyk/NurPhoto/Getty Images Former Googler Nicholas Dufau said he felt “acutely expendable” after being laid off via email. He wrote on LinkedIn that he discovered he’d lost his job while feeding his newborn daughter at 2 a.m. Google said on January 20 it was laying off 12,000 workers. A former Google employee said he felt “acutely expendable” upon discovering… Source link