Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai fires 20 more employees for protesting against company

Google layoffs: After firing 28 employees last week owing to sit-in protests at Google’s offices in New York and California, the company reportedly fired more than 20 employees, as per a report by The Verge. The employees were protesting Google’s $1.2 billion cloud computing project with the Israeli government-Project Nimbus. A spokesperson for an outfit called No Tech for Apartheid Jane Chung said as per the report that Google has fired “non-participating bystanders”. With this, the total number of employees fired for staging protests has now gone up to almost 50, the report claimed.

What we know about Google protests?

Several Google employees protesting at the company’s offices which resulted in nine of them being arrested, it was earlier reported.