Meanwhile, Alphabet had 116 billion USD “cash on hand” at the end of September 2022 with net income for that quarter being almost 14 billion, and nearly 67 billion for the year.
Even if the full cost of each employee was 500K per year, that’s “only” 6 billion dollars to keep those “great” people that they “love” working with around.
It’s pretty clear that Google can in fact afford to keep “great” people that they “love” working with employed, so “affecting Googlers lives” doesn’t have to “weight heavily” on anyone.
These aren’t huge amounts for people who now have to look for new jobs and compete with all the other people who are getting laid off by the thousands every week.
Meanwhile, Alphabet had 116 billion USD “cash on hand” at the end of September 2022 with net income for that quarter being almost 14 billion, and nearly 67 billion for the year.
Even if the full cost of each employee was 500K per year, that’s “only” 6 billion dollars to keep those “great” people that they “love” working with around.
It’s pretty clear that Google can in fact afford to keep “great” people that they “love” working with employed, so “affecting Googlers lives” doesn’t have to “weight heavily” on anyone.
This is basically every tech company CEO doing mass layoffs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u48vYSLvKNQ
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They’re giving huge amounts to the people they’re laying off though
These aren’t huge amounts for people who now have to look for new jobs and compete with all the other people who are getting laid off by the thousands every week.