**** #Google laying off 12K workers ****
This is being reported as ~6% of workforce, which I'm assuming is based off the FTE (full-time), not temp (TVC) numbers. But I don't know for sure.
Googlers received this email from Sundar today:
https://blog.google/inside-google/message-ceo/january-update/
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@lauren Unprecedented in core engineering... kind of. Previously, Google did soft-layoffs to core by closing entire offices and making those engineers an offer to go somewhere else, knowing a lot of people can't just pull up stakes. And, of course, they've played the ugly Silicon Valley game of growing and shrinking the temp pool like they're a bungie cord made of human livelihoods for their entire existence, more or less.
... but basically unprecedented in core engineering.
