Meanwhile, the largest search engine posted a profit of $13.6 billion and employees complained of low wages.
Members of the Alphabet Workers Union protested today in front of Google’s Mountain View headquarters and near a company store in New York in support of contractors fired by the company, Bloomberg reported. Actions included both full-time employees and third-party employees working under separate contracts.
Google recently announced the biggest drop in its history by 6% (or 12 thousand people) due to the difficult economic situation, taking the example of companies that are reducing staff such as Microsoft, Salesforce and Amazon. The layoffs primarily affected subcontractors with whom Google cooperates under separate agreements and who are not directly involved in the structure of Alphabet Corporation.
The protests that passed were a response to the results of the fiscal year announced by Alphabet. It turns out that the company made $13.6 billion in profits last year, and that fact angered the protesters. Earlier, Google spoke about the difficult financial situation and the need to save.
At the rally, subcontractors said the search giant profits from their jobs, pays them far less than full-time workers, and doesn’t provide them with reasonable fringe benefits. Outsourced tasks included viewing content to train the company’s artificial intelligence algorithms, viewing YouTube clips, and searching for ads for offensive or sensitive content.
Previously Focus He wrote that one of the developers of Gmail, at the root of the most popular mail, predicted exactly the decline of the Google search engine due to ChatGPT.
Source: Focus
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