While the extent of the layoffs was staggering, it was the way the cuts were handled that stunned many inside and outside the company. These three employees, who spoke on condition of anonymity, talked about what it was really like.
Another employee’s manager was on vacation, so they had no one to reach out to when rumors of layoffs started to swirl. A third was waking up to demands from their toddler when their phone started to buzz with text messages asking, “Are you safe?” The three employees, who spoke to CNN on condition of anonymity, were all among the 12,000 workers laid off by Google that day.
“The problem was, suddenly, you didn’t work for a company that was sending stuff to space or building autonomous cars,” Rout said. Google was always, at its core, an advertising business, but he said, “there was an identity associated with Google where people know that you could be on the team making self-driving cars.
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