Google to lay off 6% of its global workforce

After Amazon, Microsoft and Meta carried out massive layoffs, Google is doing the same and plans to let about 6% of its global workforce go. That amounts to approximately 12,000 people. For comparison, Amazon's latest round of layoffs cut 18,000 jobs (6%), Microsoft's cut was 10,000 jobs (5%), while Meta had to release 11,000 people (13%). So Google's layoff isn't disproportionately bigger, but that's still a lot of people about to be left without a job. Everyone in the tech industry - and not only - is bracing for the economic downturn and it's looking for a way to cut costs. Naturally,...

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