Google Fires Its Director of News Ecosystem Development After 13 Years of Service: Report

Owing to Google’s massive layoff in January this year, around 12,000 employees across the organization were affected by this decision. Under the second wave of a mass layoff, the company confirmed job cuts at the mapping app Waze. 

According to sources, many employees were laid off during their maternity leave and while on vacation. The second job cut effort by the company also impacted top-tier professionals, including Google’s mental health head.

Now the report says that Google has fired its director of the news ecosystem, who shared a LinkedIn post with an ID card, stating he is preparing to leave the company after serving for around 13 years. 

Google’s Director of News Ecosystem Development Loses His Job

The former Google director of news ecosystem development confirmed that he is leaving the company due to a recent layoff and will take off in August. He also referenced his achievements and added a thank you note to his colleagues. He said nothing would be achieved if his colleagues and teammates didn’t support and contribute their significant efforts. 

He confirmed that he is planning to spend September in India (looking after his mother) and would plan to work in October. 

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Bloomberg’s Report on Underpaid Google Contract Workers

Previously the report shared by Bloomberg notified that the contract workers who are charged to review and improve Bard’s productivity capabilities are underpaid and require working overtime, making them stressed. 

The report mentioned that since the company entered the field of generative AI to compete with Open AI’s ChatGPT, the size of the workload and complexities have drastically increased. In the absence of proper training, the contract workers were asked to review the answers generated by Google Bard on various domains, ranging from medicine to law. 

Due to recent layoffs and challenging work scenarios, most Google employees seem to be worried, stressed, and don’t have any idea what’s going on in the company. 

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