Google recently announced further cutbacks to employee perks, but staff say the company has been pulling back on freebies for years

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

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Read the letter Google employees sent to Sundar Pichai about mass layoffs that tells him: 'Don't Be Evil'

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Sundar Pichai is CEO of Google owner Alphabet.

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Laid-off Google employees may not get paid out for approved maternity or medical leave as severance terms deadline looms

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Google announced in January that it was cutting 6% of its workforce, and those affected have been urging execs to take another look at their severance terms.

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Hundreds of Google workers in Zurich walked out after 200 of their colleagues got laid off

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Hundreds of Google workers staging a protest in Zurich, Switzerland on March 15, 2023.
Google staff walked out in Zurich on Wednesday.

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A Googler who lost her job in January's cuts says being laid off 'freed' her to launch a wellness business after suffering from Lyme disease in college

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Emily Cahill, a former software engineer at Google
Emily Cahill, a former software engineer at Google, said being laid off was like a "blessing."

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A Google worker says some staffers found out which colleagues had been laid off when their emails bounced back

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Google said on January 20 that it was laying off 12,000 workers.

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A Googler laid off after 15 years said she sees it as a chance to break out of the company's 'golden handcuffs'

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A Google manager laid off after 15 years said staying at the tech giant for so long was holding her back.

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Laid-off Googlers say they're frustrated about being treated as external candidates for internal roles even though they're still being paid

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks during the keynote address of the Google I/O conference in Mountain View, Calif, May 2019.
Google told laid-off workers that they could apply for other jobs at the company.

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A Googler laid off while on vacation found out when her colleague texted her, and said it made her feel like she was 'just a number'

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Google laid off 12,000 workers in January.

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Laid-off Google workers say the impersonal way the company let them go shows it's 'just as cutthroat corporate as anybody else'

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Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google Inc. speaks during an event in New Delhi on December 19, 2022
Google told affected US staff in an early-morning email on January 20 that "we no longer have a job for you."

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