Google are being shy with the numbers. Confirmed 'hundreds'; probably very low thousands? Maybe 1%?

I get a "ripping the bandaid off" sense of it. Like for a lot of them the assumption is "okay, this is the rest of it, and then we are reset to the new normal". No idea whether that assumption is correct, but it seems the mentality is more that than "oh crap, batten down the hatches, another storm is coming".

Lots of social and casual-entertainment companies hired a ton for the pandemic "nobody goes outside" surge too. Some of this (and the last year or two) is simply shedding unsustainable increases as everyone gets a better idea of what changes have actually occurred and will stick around.

Whether that's a 5% increase or a 500% increase in amount-laid-off though, no idea. And I do worry that the increased media attention will simply make these easier to pull off unjustly, as people get more and more used to seeing it happen.

The google layoff was in the Hundreds... i.e. what they do normally every year anyway silently. It's just being played up for investors.

Aren’t these companies who historically try and avoid layoffs? To me is them changing their stance.