Per CNBC
Google Starts Massive Layoff Plan by Letting Go of 1,800 Employees in California
1/25/2023
Google previously announced its plans to lay off 12,000 employees from multiple locations following other massive layoffs in the tech industry. The company is starting in its home state of California, and the first round of layoffs saw the exit of 1,800 employees.
Alphabet's biggest company, Google, started with its Silicon Valley headquarters and other places within California. The company CEO Sundar Pichai gave a statement regarding how he felt about the layoffs while acknowledging how employees are worried about the situation.
Pichai: “I understand you are worried about what comes next for your work... Also very sad for the loss of some really good colleagues across the company.”
So far, the affected areas are the company's headquarters and other places.
Here are the locations that have experienced the layoffs.
- 1,436 job cuts took place in Mountain View, Google's base
- 119 job cuts took place in San Bruno, YouTube's home
- 53 job cuts took place in Palo Alto
- 177 job cuts took place in Los Angeles
Some notable actions include how 27 in-house massage therapists were laid off. Of this number, 24 alone came from Mountain View. These were on top of the "director" or "senior" roles being let go in the company's Bay Area.
The remaining three in-house massage therapists came from Irvine, Southern California, and Los Angeles. Per the filings, out of the 12,000 employees, 1,845, or around 15% of the layoffs, came from California.
The layoffs came while the company delayed 20% of its 2022 full-year-end bonuses, with its new timeline being in March. On top of this, the company is being sued by the US Justice Department over its dominance when it comes to the digital advertising market, which is worth $626.86 billion.
Google said that employees in the US would still be paid for a minimum of 60 days throughout the notification period.
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