When Diane Hirsh Theriault’s co-worker returned from lunch to Google’s Cambridge, Mass., office one afternoon in October, his work badge couldn’t open a turnstile.
He quickly realized it was a sign that he had been laid off.
Ms. Hirsh Theriault soon learned that most of her fellow Google News engineers in Cambridge had also lost their jobs.
More than 40 people in the news division were cut, a company union said, though a number of them were later offered jobs elsewhere inside Google.
Ms. Hirsh Theriault’s experience is increasingly common at Google, where rolling job cuts in recent months, after a year of significant layoffs, have employees on edge.
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