A Google worker says some staff found out which colleagues had been laid off after their emails bounced back
De Rivaz, who works from Google's London office, said that since that day"we've effectively had daily updates from parts of the world of people being laid off."
He added that in countries outside the US, staffers have largely had more notice of their termination and have been able to say goodbye to colleagues. Some affected US workers told Insider they were annoyed at not being able to say goodbye to or thank colleagues. They said they'd been scrambling to find LinkedIn accounts and cell numbers for their former coworkers, including their managers, to ask for more information about the layoffs and maintain their friendships. Some also expressed frustration about losing access to documents and pictures saved on company devices and in emails.from CEO Sundar Pichai.
"That attitude has completely disappeared," he said."Internally it was a massive shock to the system. This really hasn't happened before.""We put a lot of deliberation into every hire we make, so havingA technical writer described the layoffs as"super disruptive," especially to projects the laid-off colleagues had been working on., employees lost motivation because they don't know if hard work is enough to protect them from future cuts.
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