Dismissed tech workers got lavish severance pay but unclear others will

If retrenchments broaden to other parts of the economy, affected workers might not be as lucky

Retrenched Googlers would be paid 16 weeks’ salary plus two weeks per year at Google. ST PHOTO: GIN TAY
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For anyone watching the slew of tech layoffs in the preceding months from the sidelines, it can feel like a world turned upside down.

First, tech companies, flush with cash and competing hard to hire tech talent during the Covid-19 e-commerce boom, did a U-turn and started to fire people mercilessly. 

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