A married couple working with Google was fired as a part of the tech big’s mass layoffs whereas the girl was on maternity depart, in line with a Enterprise Insider report. Highschool sweethearts Allie and Steve, who’ve a four-month-old child, had been working with Google for the previous six and 4 years, respectively.
A former advertising and marketing supervisor at Google, Allie went on parental depart quickly after the start of her first baby in 2022. The brand new mother was planning to take eight months of depart. Steve, a analysis operations supervisor, had additionally availed two months of paternity depart in late 2022 and was ready to take two extra months in March.
Each bought to know they have been hit by the layoffs on the similar time. The couple praised their coworkers and Google’s worker advantages, particularly the parental depart coverage, which was a key issue that inspired them to work with the corporate. Though the couple didn’t get to fulfill one another usually within the workplace, they participated in Google’s bike programme for workers, Allie stated.
Allie additionally shared that many corporations had contacted them with job provides after understanding in regards to the couple’s layoff. The couple revealed that they have been entrepreneurs, too, and can use this off time to construct their explainer video enterprise – White Dice Media – arrange in 2014. “This was the push that we wanted,” Enterprise Insider quoted Allie in a press release.
On January 22, Google’s guardian firm Alphabet stated it will lay off almost 6% of its employees or 12,000 staff. Many staff shared on Twitter the stunning methods by which they have been knowledgeable of the pink slip. To cushion the blow, six months of healthcare, job assist, and immigration companies have been provided by the corporate.
One other eight-month-pregnant worker, Katherine Wong, shared her expertise of being fired simply days earlier than the beginning of her maternity depart, even after a “constructive efficiency overview”.
“The primary thought that got here to my thoughts was “Why me? Why now?”. It was arduous to course of and digest…It’s virtually unattainable for me to search for a job as a 34-week pregnant and proper about to go on maternity depart for months,” she wrote in a LinkedIn put up.
On Monday, CEO Sundar Pichai introduced that high executives at Google will undergo pay cuts this 12 months as a part of cost-cutting measures.