Google is the latest tech company to slash its workforce following Microsoft, Amazon and others who also laid off thousands of employees. NBC News Brian Cheung has more details on what this could mean for the broader economy.
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Plenty of restaurants are hiring. Get a job down the street. So much nicer.
why isnt anyone opening investigations into these companys like elon?
Hopefully the majority of the “woke” workforce gets the boot and gets shown the door. Time to start cleaning house and bringing normality back to the world.
Here Amazon is Hiring like crazy. So I think you need to do some more research
Yeah you gotta be sympathetic. Probably weren’t making an extra billion this year, hope they do well. 😡
Are they getting ready for an economic crash?
Walmart as well. 15 lanes closed 2 open. One of the 2 is self check out
We call it greed.
It’s starting, Robots are taking over slowly
You think the guys from the internship got laid off?
Perfect Timing, after the Midterm Election !
Now,,, the LIARS can Claim,,, “It’s the Fault of Republicans”…
Real “Fallout” vibes coming. Iykyk.
Lay off the ceo first, this will be a great start. 👍
How many of the fired people are actually tech people?, I’m guessing most of them are non-technical people who used to work in a tech sector.
I’m thankful i have a Career they appreciate me on a daily basis
What is your career? Tell us more.
Thanks to Ukrainian president Biden your really taking care of us Americans.
Sign of end of time coming soon
google employees in upper management will be going to federal prisons 🍿
Pretty sure McDonalds is hiring 🤔
So what are you waiting for?
WELL THEY HAVE A RECORD YEAR. AND THE TOP OF THE COMPANY MAKE MILLIONS IN BONUSES. WELL THE REST OF US STRAVE AND DIE
Those companies completely lost my support when they did that to those innocent people just want to be able to feed their families
Good, great! This is excellent news. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Google is 97% asains. I went to visit the google college. Bro I was in asia
Sometimes you gotta work on what’s available,
The demoRATS strike again
It seems like they hire folks to help build their high tech A.I infrastructure unbeknownst to the employee that they’re building the mechanism that will soon replace them
Billionaire envy is sickening but a testament we are all slaves
United corporations of america
What is our purpose with Ai, being so superior. Survival of the fittest- maybe we can get some farmers to get farming , instead of data entry positions, we need to reasses the things we are putting into our bodies. Or we won’t be strong enough or even capable of pulling the power cord out the wall when Ai finds humans akin to having an infestation of insects, in its digital garden….
you know my friend was complaining about this because their making who ever they kept multi task where now its a staff shortage , everyday he;s drinking more heavy and stressed out when he use to never drink unless it was on the weekends . i remember he would take work out breaks before but now he cant doesnt have the time too he just sits their all day with like 5 different monitors looking like hes about to snap one day.
Oh too bad….now all the snowflakes will have to get real jobs. Maybe some of them can work in road repair, driving trucks delivering food to supermarkets. EMT or fire fighters, farming….you know …. jobs where you actually do something!
Every one of those jobs use technology you dunce.
tmobile as well
Schools are hiring! Come onboard.
I hope things get better for everyone soon.
Maybe instead of economy-wide recessions, the new reality can be rotating sectional recessions. Today it’s tech, tomorrow manufacturing but tech picks up again, then tourism while manufacturing picks up again, and so forth…
Doesn’t Amazon cut staff annually after the Xmas holiday season?
That’s during holidays for temps yes they lay people off
@LadyBug Pisces K Tarot that was my point.
They don’t need to mass fire (layoff). This is only for greed.
Have them start up home building. Make housing “cheaper” and get people into homes. Just teach them as long as we have the recourses we should be pumping out houses let’s goooooo
they hired for trumps economy not joe bidens train wreck of a economy
Now the tech industry is a less secure career field….
Better find a job that requires only humans. Soon there wont be jobs at restaurant and stores.
They’ve realized that profits actually matter now for their stockholders.
If you aren’t firing thousands of people a day, are you really even a billionaire?
Gravy train is over.
This is good news. I hope my stocks go up.
The more working for free with high tech apps/shopping online the bigger they get to cut jobs & is called progress.
Cause: AGI and the end of the human era. They know what’s coming!
All these layoffs yet “soFt LandInG” and “No reCeSSioN”
😂😂😂
‘Meta’ needs to die in a fire.
“Thanks for watching our You Tube channel” needs to go. Lester’s getting overexposed.
Were ya there when they did this? Nope.
This is unreal
Well the nice thing about most tech layoffs is that some of them provide nice severance packages giving employees time to find a new gig along with unemployment.
The beginning of the recession those big companies know what’s going on they are letting all them go for a reason believe that
Algorithms are killing tec jobs….it was onlya matter of time..people do not know just how smart Algorithms are..
Good, overpaid imo
My daughter works for Amazon here in tx hope they no lay her off .smh
Called my credit card company other day, and spoke to rep who incapable of answering simple questions, trimming the fat is a healthy thing, 30 percent of American workforce shouldn’t even be hired in the first place..
So the AI everyone has been working on for a long time is now replacing them?
Just so the CEO pockets dont get damage$ lol 😂😂
Man that’s scary
No wonder everyone’s starting their own businesses. All these large corporates today make jobs so unstable.
AI and robotics replace tech workers. not surprised
If these companies are able to lay off that many people at the blink of a eye says that for years they were over-hiring. They were hiring everyones relatives and friends for overpaid/cushy do nothing jobs. Remember how Google had nap rooms for employees? You can’t run a company like that and expect to continue to be profitable.
Probably because of the AI like the famous chatgpt which is capable of writing an entire application in few minutes or even less, making websites, calculations, teaching students, solving assignments,……
Chatgpt will replace many existing jobs, and it’s already happening.
https://youtu.be/GzksqTu9UY4
Like Andrew Yang said, automation is going to eat away the global workforce. He tells people to think about jobs that automation cannot replace such as vocational trade skills.. hvac tech, plumbers, nurses, mechanics, etc.. we need to change our mindset of how we think a software engineer for Google is more valued than a skilled tradesman.
Is everyone as sick of this technology world as I am?
They’ve closed so many companies down and ruined many employees from so many jobs that they’ve ruined.
good bye Millenials and Gen-Z’ers, we never knew ya’
Those who did not get laid off should use this leverage to work from home for 20 hours a week and double pay since they are so valuable and kept onboard.
Good, f’k em!
Not the slightest bit surprising given recent rulings on AI.
Don’t ever feel sorry for a tech worker. Y’all sleep in the bed y’all made.
Google had to lay off all their politicians ;-;
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10 milion job where? flipping burgers, working retail? working at walmart? in los angeles if dont make over 17 and hour @40 hours a week you could barely afford a small apartment notice how they never specify which area of employment has these 10 million plus jobs, yet you go on indeed and the like and see the same jobs from the same company pop up months and months and lot of time they dont even take it down. when you apply it just said this post has expired or something close to it, smh
It won’t be hard for the workers to find new work… at least while you get paid more than it costs to work.
ADULT DAYCARES ARE ENDING . TIME TO SEE IF YOU CAN HANDLE A REAL JOB .
What is Google? The data thieves?
Blame democrats Obama Biden Pelosi Newsom Schumer Clinton who started the inflation causing money printing at the federal reserve bank
This is thanks to the killing of the economies all over the world., all part of the NWO masterplan which we accepted like sheep!
I just layed off Amazon for firing Clarkson. Get woke, get broke.
While tech industries are needed, America needs workers skilled in other areas as well.
Look, it’s not like your getting laid off from Google and now no one will ever want to hire you. Prisoners have life rougher, You’ll just have to adapt and adjust, and that’s what I gotta say about that. It’s not like you have a background check stopping you from feeding your family like my dad did growing up.
Looks like equity and wokism isnt working out to well, maybe Google should try standing up with freedom loving Americans instead of against them, while pushing those leftist globalist marxist agendas
Picking up a trade will always be the best option you can always hire yourself
And now they know how those former pipeline employees feel.
Next, they’ll be told, “Not to worry. You can get jobs making solar panels.”
Of course they did it’s AFTER CHRISTMAS …
Ha – ha
We need employees and CEOs that were born in the states
To hire immigrants. That’s why guaranteed
You know why. 10 and thousands of immigrants just entered the country. I’ve seen this before.
Don’t need to hire Americans it’s cheaper to hire people from India, China, for pennies on the dollar. It’s going to be bad for everyone . Ross Perot back is the 80s, warn us from the big sucking sound of jobs going overseas . No one was crying when people lost their blue-collar jobs.
That’s great news ,because their is a shortage of workers in trucking, fast food, and other skilled labor , all jobs paying minimum wage
I have bought a Vivo X90 Pro+ phone recently, after comparing side by side photo quality from it with my iPhone, I wonder why Apple is 4000 times more valuable than Vivo, and why Apple need so many employees.
People are going to have to get humble when looking for work
how do we get paid Through what kind of job,,?
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