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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
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Retrenched Googlers would be paid 16 weeks’ salary plus two weeks per year at Google.
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Koh Cheng Boon
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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.
