In an open letter addressed to Sundar Pichai, employees made a series of demands of the company.
In an open letter addressed to chief executive officer Sundar Pichai, employees made a series of demands of the company, including freezing new hires, seeking voluntary redundancies before compulsory ones, giving priority to laid off workers for job vacancies and letting workers finish scheduled periods of paid time off, such as parental and bereavement leave.
“The impacts of Alphabet’s decision to reduce its workforce are global,” the letter said. “Nowhere have workers’ voices adequately been considered, and we know that as workers we are stronger together than alone.” A spokesperson for Alphabet didn’t immediately comment on the petition. When Pichai announced the job cuts on Jan 20, he said in an email to staff that the company hired for a “different economic reality than the one we face today” and that he took “full responsibility”.
The letter was organised by a group of employees supported by unions including the Alphabet Workers Union, United Tech and Allied Workers and UNI Global. It was born out of discussions via a Discord channel set up after the jobs cuts were announced.
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