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

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google Workers Stage Rallies Against Job Cuts, Low Wages  Yahoo Finance Source link

MOUNTAIN VIEW — Dozens of Google workers from across the country rallied at Google headquarters Wednesday to demand higher wages and benefits from Google’s parent company Alphabet. With the backing of the Alphabet Workers Union, a group of Google contract workers known as “raters” made their voices heard on Google’s main campus calling for fair pay and benefits. “I support the largest revenue stream that Google has, and I don’t have healthcare from my employer, and I don’t have the… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google ‘rater’ contract workers rally at Mountain View headquarters to demand higher pay  CBS San Francisco Source link

Michelle Curtis has rated Google searches professionally for eight years — training, testing and evaluating the algorithms for the company’s dominant search engine — while making $13.50 an hour. On Jan. 1, Curtis received a raise to $14.50 an hour, which is still lower than the $15 minimum hourly wage that Alphabet Inc. GOOGL, +1.61% GOOG, +1.56% has established for its temporary, contractor and vendor workforce,… Source link

In the case of good employees who are being let go through no fault of their own, those conversations benefit the employer, too, because people remember how they’re treated in their lowest moments — and word spreads fast. Future hiring prospects will be reading all about it on Twitter or Glassdoor. In a tight labor market, a company’s cruelty can leave a lasting stain on its reputation. Perhaps the most appalling aspect of termination by email is the asymmetry between what corporations… Source link

Chipotle (CMG) is out with a new campaign to hire 15,000 full-time and part-time employees ahead of its busiest time of the year, the months of March to May, or what it calls “burrito season.” These hires will be kept on for “ongoing employment” beyond the busy season, a Chipotle spokesperson confirmed. The hiring campaign, dubbed “pull back the foil,” features six employees across the U.S. that rose in the ranks from a crew member to managerial roles. In the release, Chief Restaurant Officer… Source link

Jan. 25, 2023Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 3:33 p.m. The logo of Google is displayed on a carpet at the entrance hall of Google France in Paris. Google said it’s laying off 12,000 workers, becoming the latest tech company to trim staff after rapid expansions during the COVID-19 pandemic have worn off. Michel Euler, STF / Associated Press Google’s mass layoff of 12,000 workers will affect at… Source link

Sundar Pichai announced 12,000 job cuts on Friday.Jerod Harris/Getty Images Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai announced layoffs Friday affecting 12,000 positions at the Google owner. Some employees who earned as much as $1 million were also cut, The Information reported. Pichai told staff in a memo that he took “full responsibility for the decisions that led us here.” Some of the 12,000 staff whose roles were cut by Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai on Friday included both high performers and workers making… Source link

Sundar Pichai announced 12,000 job cuts on Friday.Jerod Harris/Getty Images Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai announced layoffs Friday affecting 12,000 positions at the Google owner. Some employees who earned as much as $1 million were also cut, The Information reported. Pichai told staff in a memo that he took “full responsibility for the decisions that led us here.” Some of the 12,000 staff whose roles were cut by Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai on Friday included both high performers and workers making… Source link