Hundreds of Google employees walked out of their Zurich offices to protest the company’s handling of mass layoffs so far this year.
In early February, the IT union Syndicom (opens in new tab) announced that about 250 workers had taken part in the strike “in solidarity with those laid off by companies around the world”.
A month later, with the news that another 200 colleagues had been laid off, an estimated 400-500 employees in the same office did exactly the same.
Google Strikes, Protests, Layoffs
Now, what Syndicom claims (opens in new tab) Google’s rejection of employee requests and suggestions to reduce and prevent layoffs.
At Google’s Zurich campus alone, 2,500 employees have voluntarily offered to reduce their working hours to save roles for many workers likely to face layoffs in the future, according to unions. I was.
“The Works Council, together with the Syndicom union, is currently in negotiations with Google to negotiate an expanded social plan,” it said.
Despite making billions in profits, employees are most resentful of the lack of transparency around layoffs.
according to layoff.fyi (opens in new tab) , Google has been tracking job cuts across the industry, announcing the biggest one-time job cuts in January of 12,000 jobs, but that’s just 6% of the company’s workforce, while other companies have followed suit. More than double the percentage.
Google has come under scrutiny in other regions as well, following the company’s recent move to enforce a desk-sharing policy for all cloud division employees based in five office spaces in Kirkland, New York City, San Francisco, Seattle and Sunnyvale. I am disputing the decision. It tries to cut costs.
