Google announced last week that it would cut 12,000 employees, about 6% of the company's workforce. Of these, 1,845 workers will be laid off only in Google's "native" US state of California, that is, it will take on 15% of all cuts, CNBC reports.

Most workers will lose their jobs at or near Google's Silicon Valley headquarters. At its headquarters in Mountain View, 1,436 jobs are being cut. Another 119 people will lose their jobs in San Bruno, where YouTube is based, and 53 employees will be made redundant in Palo Alto.

As expected, the dismissal procedure itself will start on March 31, 2023 - California law requires that employees be provided with written notice at least 60 days before the start of mass layoffs or the closure of the enterprise. The company confirmed that during all these 60 days, employees who were laid off will receive their full salary.

More than a quarter of the jobs being made redundant in the San Francisco Bay Area had "director" or "senior" in their titles. 27 massage therapists also lost their jobs: 24 in Mountain View and 3 in Los Angeles and Irvine. There are 177 job cuts on the Playa Vista campus in Los Angeles and 60 more in Irvine.

The decision to carry out massive layoffs, the head of the company Sundar Pichai explained with intensive growth in the acute phase of the pandemic, immediately followed by a completely different economic reality - a slowdown in growth and the risks of a recession.