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Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai-led company fires entire Python team for ‘cheaper labour’ (www.hindustantimes.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Google layoffs: The company plans to set up a new team in Munich, Germany which would act as "cheaper" labour, the report claimed.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but you still have to pay social taxes on top for every worker. That's why salary and labour cost are two different things. And boy is it a difference in Germany.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And as far as I've been led to believe, workers in the USA will be bullied into not taking any time off. Germans will take their entitled holidays and use sick leave when they are sick.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Workers in the US may not even have sick time. They do make more money though, probably because lots of European tech workers come to the US for better pay.