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Exclusive: Google parent to lay off 12,000 workers in latest blow to tech
Reuters (on their own site) ^ | January 20, 2023 | Jeffrey Dastin

Posted on 01/20/2023 3:59:00 AM PST by Salman

Jan 20 (Reuters) - Google's parent Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) is eliminating about 12,000 jobs, or 6% of its workforce, it said Friday, as Silicon Valley reels from recent layoffs and faces a troubled outlook.

Alphabet, whose shares rose 3% in pre-market trading, is making the cuts just as the U.S. company confronts a threat to its long-held perch atop the technology sector.

For years Alphabet has attracted top talent to build Google, YouTube and other products that reach billions of users, but it is now locked in competition with Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) in a burgeoning area known as generative artificial intelligence.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chat; computers; google; labor; newsforumabuse; tech
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1 posted on 01/20/2023 3:59:01 AM PST by Salman
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To: Salman

So how many-of those Dem voting - American job stealing Indias can be flown back to India now !


2 posted on 01/20/2023 4:10:54 AM PST by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil)
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To: Salman

For years Alphabet has attracted top talent to build Google
funny


3 posted on 01/20/2023 4:18:04 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: ncalburt

Zero, they won’t fire the H1-B workers since they can rape them financially.
More white males down the wood chipper.


4 posted on 01/20/2023 4:31:15 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Salman

Really great thing is all these people getting laid off from these big tech companies they are not gonna be able to find another job In tech somewhere else they are going to have to find something else to do


5 posted on 01/20/2023 4:34:54 AM PST by rottweiller_inc (inter canem et lupum)
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To: Salman

I’m happy to see that the big tech companies, known for colluding with the government to suppress dissident thought, are not raking in the money as fast as they thought they could.


6 posted on 01/20/2023 4:37:14 AM PST by I want the USA back (News media are pond scum. My pronouns: Haha, heehee, hoho. )
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To: Salman

The ‘end’ of tech jobs

Microsoft Employee Count:

2019: 144k Employees

2020: 163k Employees

2021: 181k Employees

2022: 221k Employees

2022 (Q4): 211k Employees (Post Layoffs)


7 posted on 01/20/2023 4:40:29 AM PST by jarwulf
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To: EEGator

>> More white males down the wood chipper.

We actually know a genuine white male that works for the Alphabet People out in Commiefornia.

I’ll bet he’s in the minority though.

Good Christian kid, hope he’s able to keep his job.


8 posted on 01/20/2023 4:48:10 AM PST by Nervous Tick (Truth is not hate speech.)
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To: EEGator

You mean more white wokester soy-boys down the wood chipper


9 posted on 01/20/2023 4:48:56 AM PST by frogjerk (More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
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To: rottweiller_inc
they are not gonna be able to find another job In tech somewhere else they are going to have to find something else to do

u-https-tse1-mm-bing-net-th-id-OIP

10 posted on 01/20/2023 4:50:58 AM PST by Nervous Tick (Truth is not hate speech.)
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To: frogjerk

If that makes you feel better. Not everyone in the sector is a woke soy boy.
I side with multigenerational white men over sidewalk crapping cow worshippers in a binary decision.


11 posted on 01/20/2023 4:54:24 AM PST by EEGator
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To: rottweiller_inc

Learn to code

Oh wait...


12 posted on 01/20/2023 4:57:53 AM PST by FreshPrince
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To: EEGator

There aren’t many white, conservative, real family men working for wokester companies in Silicon Valley. That’s just a fact.


13 posted on 01/20/2023 5:10:55 AM PST by frogjerk (More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
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To: frogjerk

Present your facts.


14 posted on 01/20/2023 5:15:27 AM PST by EEGator
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To: FreshPrince
Learn to code Oh wait...

Instead of code for mining BitCoins

They can get a real job:

Mining Coal.

15 posted on 01/20/2023 5:26:29 AM PST by spokeshave (Proud Boys, Angry Dads and Grumpy Grandads.)
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To: FreshPrince

“ Learn to code”

I heard a great retort to that Obama advice to laid-off coal miners.

China is opening a new coal power plant every 4-5 days. All those coders need to learn how to dig coal - in China.


16 posted on 01/20/2023 5:27:57 AM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: FreshPrince

Maybe learn to dig coal?😁


17 posted on 01/20/2023 5:33:42 AM PST by rottweiller_inc (inter canem et lupum)
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To: Nervous Tick

I don’t know cause seems like that cities making the minimum wage $15 has caused these places to automate. I suspect those wages passed a threshold where it became more cost effective to install robotics


18 posted on 01/20/2023 5:34:59 AM PST by rottweiller_inc (inter canem et lupum)
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To: rottweiller_inc

The push for robotic manual labor has nothing to do with spot price of unskilled human labor. Robotics are more efficient than slaves which make $0/hr.


19 posted on 01/20/2023 5:37:46 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va

Plus there’s the added benefit that robotic labor is not yet subject to wage taxes


20 posted on 01/20/2023 5:42:14 AM PST by rottweiller_inc (inter canem et lupum)
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