“After almost 8.5 years working at Google, I received notice this morning that I was impacted by the workforce reduction and no longer have a role at the company . . . I envisioned spending my entire working career at Google, so this news has been particularly hard to absorb.”LinkedIn is awash in posts like this from Google workers who suddenly lost their jobs this month via email. Some had devoted decades of their life to the company. Google’s parent, Alphabet, is among the tech giants slashing their workforce by thousands. The sector overall has shed about 200,000 jobs in the past year.
“在谷歌(Google)工作近8年半之后,我今天上午收到一条通知:我受到裁员影响,在这个公司不再拥有职位……我曾期望在谷歌工作一辈子,所以这个消息特别让我难以消化。”