Some Google employees found they were laid off only when their badge didn't let them into the office: "Inhuman" | Boing Boing

Around 12,000 — or 6% — of Google employees were laid on Friday, but not everyone saw the “abrupt and impersonal” email before commuting to work. And so some employees who missed the me…

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Note that Google are still hiring for open positions. If you get a Google recruiter asking to chat (and you aren't interested), I strongly suggest you (kindly, because they need a job like everyone else and they weren't behind the layoffs) reply to say that you are not interested in working for companies that layoff the way they do (and link to your preferred article about it).

If enough people do this, this will get up to execs.