Staff solidarity | Google workers walk out and offer to take pay cuts amid layoffs

Google workers walk out and offer to take pay cuts amid layoffs

Hundreds of employees at Google’s Zurich office staged a walkout in response to another influx of layoffs in Big Tech. The workers, who are a part of the IT union Syndicom, walked out after 200 employees were laid off.

There have been mass layoffs across the tech sector in recent months, with over 120,000 workers losing their jobs at some of the world’s largest tech companies including Meta, Netflix, Amazon, and Google’s parent company Alphabet.

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