Accounting for about six per cent of its workforce of around 3,000.
The retrenchments affected those working on several tech products, including Google Pay, Google Cloud, Google Analytics, as well as several corporate divisions, including finance, legal, and trust and safety, they said.
“The first feeling I had upon reading the e-mail was disbelief: You know you could be one of them but always thought it won’t be you,” he said. “I received more or less the same severance as the United States, maybe slightly better in quantum,” he said. Healthcare, job placement services and immigration support were also offered, with employees outside the US receiving support “in line with local practices”.
He added that the staff he has spoken to report low morale and that their trust in the firm is broken, an outsized cost compared with how much retrenching 6 per cent of staff would save the firm. He also noted reports that Google is under investor pressure to cut jobs further.
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