Google trims its mental health team, wellness head claims being laid off

The director of global mental health and well-being at Google has announced that she was among the 12,000 employees recently sacked in the company’s biggest-ever round of layoffs. San Francisco-based Kristin Maczko had been a part of the software giant’s workforce for the last 15 years.

In her LinkedIn post, she informed that multiple people on the mental health and well-being team had been laid off by the big tech firm. To the remaining staff on the team, she added that, “Googlers need you more than ever now, and I am excited to see what you will do,” she wrote.