Google Layoffs: Employees get severance pay of up to Rs 2.60 crore

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Here’s all you need to know about the severance packages of the laid-off Google employees

Google layoffs: Severance
pay of around Rs 2.60 crore?

The January announcement affected 240 workers in Ireland

Google announced
cuts 12,000 jobs

It is reported that the Irish office is offering additional six weeks of wages for every year worked at the company

Severance pay packages
in Irish office

If an employee worked at Google Ireland since its office opened in 2003, the laid employees might get up to Rs 2.60 crore as severance pay

What Irish employees
will get

Google fired employees across its sales, technology and support services department in Ireland

Who was fired in this wave?

In the US, employees are getting 16 weeks' salary and two weeks for every additional year at Google

Severance pay for Google
employees fired in the US

At the time of announcing job cuts, CEO Sundar Pichai had said, ‘Outside the US, we’ll support employees in line with local practices’

Sundar Pichai on severance
pay packages

Pichai said, ‘Over the past 2 years we’ve seen periods of dramatic growth. To match and fuel that growth, we hired for a different economic reality than the one we face today.’

Reason for Google mass layoffs

Big companies like Amazon announced 27,000 job cuts while and Meta fired 21,000 employees

Tech layoffs

Accenture is the one of the recent companies to announce a mass layoff of 19,000 employees

Accenture announced
mass layoff