Google employees scramble for answers after layoffs hit long-tenured and recently promoted employees

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related investing newsShortly after CEO Sundar Pichai’s initial email to employees Friday morning, Google's search boss Prabhakar Raghavan sent an email to employees saying he “also feels the responsibility to reach out” and asking for them to save questions for next week's town hall.Employees have flooded Dory, the company's question-asking platform, and set up virtual communities to figure out who's been laid off and why.Directors have been telling employees to hold questions for the town hall taking place next week.“Was the decision based on their performance, scope of work, or both, or something else?”Another asked: “How much runway are we hoping to gain with the layoffs?” and “Would you explain clearly what the layoff allows Google to do that Google could not have done without layoffs?"Kunis spoke to the Google logo, saying the line: “The sad thing is, I actually thought you were different.” Another meme showed former President Bill Clinton gesturing the word "zero” with the title “Leadership paycut.”“Alphabet leadership claims ‘full responsibility’ for this decision, but that is little comfort to the 12,000 workers who are now without jobs,” said Parul Koul, executive chair of Alphabet Workers Union-CWA in a statement Friday."

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