Google joins tech cull by cutting 12,000 staff

Search giant Google has announced plans to make 12,000 redundancies, heaping further misery on tech sector workers.
According to this SEC filing, CEO Sundar Pichai circulated the bad news among employees on Friday, saying he was “deeply sorry” to have to have cut “incredibly talented people we worked hard to hire and have loved working with.”
As has become evident over the last few months, tech hiring expanded rapidly during the pandemic, as the sector convinced itself th