Three o'clock in the morning layoffs, Google employee sentiment 'Enjoy life not work'

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Google's parent company Alphabet has laid off 12,000 workers. The news of the layoffs came to the employees through an emotional e-mail from the company's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Sundar Pichai. Among the 12,000 retrenched workers are ordinary workers and high-ranking officials. Many of them have expressed their opinion on this matter on social media.

According to the report of NDTV Online, the company's software engineering manager Justin Moore is among those 12,000 workers. He said on LinkedIn, a popular social media platform for professionals, that he has been working at Google for more than 16 and a half years. His account was suddenly closed around 3 pm. Then he came to know that he was among the retrenched workers.

Justin Moore also said, 'After working at Google for more than 16 and a half years, I was informed that I was one of the lucky 12,000 people by closing my account at three in the morning. Apart from this, no other information was given to me, nor was I contacted in any other way.'

Justin Moore 

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Justin Moore says his tenure at Google was 'pretty amazing'. He is proud of the way his team has worked.

Talking about his feelings, Justin Moore said, it was a lesson learned that work is not your life and authority is not everything. No one is indispensable, especially to a company as big as Google. So enjoy life, not work.'

Last Friday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced about 12,000 layoffs. He wrote an emotional letter to the workers taking full responsibility for the retrenchment. In that letter, Pichai thanked the employees who worked hard for the development of the organization. Expressed grief to them.

Google said that Google has laid off workers from different parts of the world. It has the most impact in America. In addition to the layoff, Google has also promised to help the employee find a new job. Retrenchment has been announced with 60 days notice. Retrenched employees will receive all dues including full salary for the period. In 2022, they will also get bonus for work and rest of the leave benefits.