'Moving On,' Several Laid-off Google Employees Come Together To Start A New Company

Last month, Google joined tech giants Microsoft, Meta, IBM, HP, Dell and many more in the list of mass layoffs. While conveying the message of laying off approximately 12,000 employees, Google CEO Sundar Pichai termed it as "A difficult decision to set us up for the future."

Laid-off Employees Set Up Own Company

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Amid the impacted employees, a Senior Google Manager is now working to build his own company after being laid off by the tech giant. And to help him, he has got a group of other sacked employees on board.

Henry Kirk said he had floated his business idea on a group chat he started with his team for moral support, after the mass layoffs.

With his new undertaking, Kirk, who worked to refine the Google apps experience for users, wants to offer business design and research tools to other companies.

And he is confident he has the right people on his side "We have all worked together for so many years, we already know everyone's strengths," Kirk told global news publication Insider.

"Super Risky To Start Own Business"

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Ex-Google employee Kirk acknowledged that starting his own business was "super risky". He is aware not everyone on board has the same financial safety net.

"Some people have a family to take care of, some don't, some have strong finances and they saved for years, others don't," he told the publication, as per Moneycontrol report.

Kirk also has a tight deadline to meet. He wants to break ground by the end of March -- when his layoff notification period will end. He has about six weeks to bag projects.

Kirk said that he had to quickly bounce back from his shock termination. "I was pretty bummed out for about five minutes, but then I said, well I still have a family to take care of, I learned a lot, and I think I'm ready to do my own thing," he added.

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Google India Layoffs

Google's mass layoffs have impacted workers around the world. The latest section of employees to be affected by the layoffs were those at Google India. The company reportedly sacked over 400 workers last week. CEO Sundar Pichai, in an email to the affected employees, said that he takes ¡°full responsibility for the decisions that led us here.¡±

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