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Google confirms it just laid off around a thousand employees (www.theverge.com)

submitted 8 months ago by diffusive@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] essteeyou@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How is the result good news?

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world -5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Google is dying. That's the good news.

[–] essteeyou@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Google is intentionally shedding staff to reduce costs to increase their share price. I don't think they're actually having any kind of financial issues that would cause this. This is just a company chasing profit at the cost of their staff.