Microsoft is chill with employees using ChatGPT — just don’t share ‘sensitive data’ with it.

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Welcome to February, readers. We've made it through job-cuts January. I'm Diamond Naga Siu, and it was pretty hard to avoid starting every newsletter with layoffs. But we're likely not out of the woods yet.

A Google recruiter on maternity leave said she found out she was laid off while feeding her 3-week-old baby at 4:30 a.m.

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Google Inc. CEO Sundar Pichai attends a session of the fourth World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province, China, December 3, 2017.
Google announced on January 20 that it was laying off 12,000 staff, or around 6.4% of its workforce.

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Google's head of mental health and wellbeing was among the 12,000 workers laid off by the tech giant

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks during Google I/O 2016 at Shoreline Amphitheatre on May 19, 2016 in Mountain View, California. The annual Google I/O conference is runs through May 20.
Google announced on January 20 that it was laying off around 12,000 workers, or 6.4% of its workforce.

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A public-speaking expert shares 8 tips to perfect — and even enjoy — your next work presentation

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Nick Gold suggests starting your presentation with a story to help boost your confidence.

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When it comes to dating, earning less than $30,000 is a deal breaker, a new survey shows

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Americans are looking for their partners to make more than $29,878 annually

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A Google engineer says survivors of the mass layoffs cried in meetings the day around 12,000 of their colleagues were culled

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In this Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, file photo, Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks during a news conference in New Delhi.
Thousands of US-based Google employees woke up to an email on January 20 saying they'd been laid off.

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A Googler says he was laid off while caring for his terminally-ill mom — but would take another job at the company 'in a heartbeat'

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CEO of Alphabet and Google Sundar Pichai in Warsaw, Poland on March 29, 2022
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google parent Alphabet, said on January 20 the company will lay off about 12,000 employees.

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A Google recruiter says he discovered he'd lost his job after a call with one of his candidates suddenly disconnected

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CEO of Alphabet and Google Sundar Pichai in Warsaw, Poland on March 29, 2022
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google parent Alphabet, announced Friday the company will lay off about 12,000 employees.

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A woman who worked for Google for almost a decade says she was in the hospital bed holding her hours-old newborn when she learned she was part of the 'golden12K' of laid-off Googlers

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Photo of the word Google at Google's Bay View Campus

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Google let go of 31 massage therapists at its California offices amid mass layoffs

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27 massage therapists were laid off from Google's Mountain View office, pictured above.

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