A CEO quoted Martin Luther King Jr. in an email to employees announcing layoffs. It did not go over well.

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PagerDuty CEO Jennifer Tejada quoted Martin Luther King Jr. in an email announcing layoffs.

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The hits keep coming: WeWork, Vacasa, and Compass all started 2023 with layoffs as the US housing market solidifies its downward trend. Here are 58 companies that have shed jobs.

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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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Googlers prize 'psychological safety,' but it won't save them from layoffs

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Google is cutting 6% of its workforce.

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A major Alphabet investor said the company should cut even more jobs and address 'excessive' pay in the wake of mass layoffs

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Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai.

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Digital Currency Group's crypto exchange axes 35% of its staff in the latest round of industry layoffs

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Quiet layoffs are underway.

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Salesforce employees demand answers from execs about layoffs

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Get outta my dreams (and into my car), reader. I'm Diamond Naga Siu, and I don't like driving but I am in the market for a new ride to go with my new place in San Diego. Buying a car is hard enough as it is, but I'd be even more annoyed if I bought one and then it immediately got a deep discount.

Some Google employees didn't realize they were laid off until their badges wouldn't let them into the office

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai said 12,000 employees were laid off.

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I just got laid off from Google by email. The 'cold' and 'inhuman' way they treated employees is why I'm not going to reapply.

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Google laid off 12,000 workers on Friday following mass job cuts from Amazon and Microsoft.

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