2023-01-25 02:22:39

Google job cuts hit 1,800 employees in California, including 27 massage therapists

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By Jennifer Elias

Key Points

Google's layoff included more than 1,800 employees in California, state fillings show.
More than 100 were cut from the company's YouTube campus in San Bruno, south of San Francisco.
The company let go of more than two dozen on-site massage therapists.

Google headquarters is seen in Mountain View, California, United States on September 26, 2022. (Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

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Google eliminated over 1,800 jobs in its home state California as part of the biggest round of layoffs in company history.

On Friday, Alphabet-owned Google announced it was cutting 12,000 employees, roughly 6% of the full-time workforce.According to filings released by the state and viewed by CNBC, 1,845 positions, or 15% of the cuts, were in California.

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