Google also started layoffs after Meta, these people will be affected

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Google Layoff: In January, the company’s CEO Sundar Pichai announced the removal of 12,000 employees globally. Now the company has started laying off the employees of Google’s China division.

**Google also started layoffs after Meta, these people will be affected**

Google Layoff: The matter of retrenchment of Meta is in discussion, whereas now Google has also announced the retrenchment of employees in its China office. Google’s China division has started laying off employees after the company’s CEO Sundar Pichai announced plans to lay off 12,000 employees globally in January. According to reports, the current round of layoffs in the Google China office is to reset the salary standard. Apart from this, there is an attempt to improve the overall work efficiency and reduce the operating cost. This round of layoffs in the Google China office will have the biggest impact on high paid senior employees.

According to the report, some staff members will get last month’s salary, stock and annual leave discount, CNY 30,000 (Rs 3.5 lakh) in cash and medical insurance if they quit before March 10. Some employees are also being given a buffer period of three months where they will receive salary but are not required to work. This may be due to Chinese laws to protect employees from unfair termination.

Google India
Before China, Google started laying off employees from the India division. Last month, the company abruptly fired around 450 employees from different divisions. Major offices of Google India are in Gurugram, Bengaluru and Hyderabad. Meanwhile, Google’s Singapore office had laid off some employees. At that time, Google India VP Sanjay Gupta had said in a letter to the employees that the company had reviewed the product area and functions. He said that we have already sent a separate email to the affected employees in America. In other countries, this process will take longer due to local laws. Google’s previous program manager Nicole Tsai said that the layoffs were actually random and no one was consulted on this decision.

Letter from Google CEO Sundar Pichai
In January 2023, Google CEO Sundar Pichai published a letter announcing the company’s decision to lay off 12,000 employees. The first round of layoffs affected employees in the US and as part of the compensation, the company is offering full notification period (minimum 60 days), severance package, payment for vacation time used, 2022 bonus and salary for 6 months Was being