> Not offering people the option to leave in advance was a complaint about how Google handled past layoffs.

Guess we know what’s coming.

Very interesting that this only applies to US based employees. I wonder how long before Google completely moves overseas and drops most of their domestic employees.

Voluntary exits are generally more humane, and have been used across Silicon Valley for decades before layoffs became common, so hopefully it minimizes suffering of layoffs.

Also, I’m surprised the title just calls out Pixel and Android, because this also affects most of their hardware efforts (Fitbit, Nest, Chrome, VR, etc)

Edit: I’ve heard from people there that the buyout is worse than previous rounds of severance from layoffs - namely, no stock vesting