Further, the company will offer bonuses for the year 2022 as well as the remaining vacation time.
Affected employees will get six months of healthcare, job placement services, and immigration support.
Pichai told the remaining employees that they could work from home that day to absorb the difficult news.
Apparently, employees who survived the downsize cried during the meetings that day.
Its not the typical nonverbal interaction there used to be before.
Now its a meaningful nod, the engineer said.
We truly did believe that Google was something different.
This is just another big company.
Both engineers mentioned that some of the existing employees were worried about further cuts.
The West Coast engineer also noted that the surviving staff was not informed about who was laid off.
Whitaker said he was giving free meditation and mindfulness sessions.
I miss my colleagues, Jarrod Ahalt, a laid-off security engineer, told Insider.
Weve been trying to support each other as best as we can.
source: www.techworm.net