Hundreds of Google workers in Zurich walked out after 200 of their colleagues got laid off
Hundreds of Google workers walked out of its Zurich office Wednesday in protest over mass layoffs that resulted in about 200 people losing their jobs in Switzerland., saying employees called on the company to"engage in dialogue with workers to thoroughly and seriously examine alternatives to layoffs."
More than 200 employees in Switzerland were let go as part of the 6% reduction to its workforce that Alphabet CEO Sundar PichaiA Syndicom representative told Insider in a statement that Google rejected a proposal from about 2,500 employees who offered to reduce their wages and working hours to avoid job cuts in Switzerland.
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