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In the US, companies can announce widespread job cuts and let go of hundreds if not thousands of workers within months — and many have. Meanwhile, in Europe, mass layoffs<\/a> among tech companies have stalled because of labor protections that make it virtually impossible to dismiss people in some countries without prior consultations with employee interest groups.
This has left thousands of tech workers in limbo, unsure about whether they’ll be affected by negotiations that can drag on indefinitely.
In France, Google<\/a> parent Alphabet Inc. is currently in talks to reduce headcount through voluntary departures, offering severance packages that it hopes are generous enough to get workers to leave, people familiar with the matter said, asking not to be identified because the information isn’t public. Amazon<\/a> has tried to get some senior managers there to resign by dangling as much as one year’s pay and has granted leave to departing employees so their shares can vest and be paid out as bonuses, one person with knowledge of the situation said.
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Both in France and Germany, where labor laws are among the strongest in the EU, Google<\/a> is currently in negotiations with works councils — company-specific groups whose elected employee representatives negotiate with management about workforce issues, according to a person familiar with the matter. By law, companies are required to bargain with these councils before implementing layoffs — a sometimes lengthy process that includes information gathering, negotiations and the possibility of recourse.
Because of these requirements, the person said, Google branches in Germany and France will be some of the last locations to be affected by the cuts, if even at all.
When reached for comment, Google acknowledged the negotiations, and added that it was not planning on implementing layoffs in Romania, Greece or Austria.
“We have been working carefully and individually through each country where reductions are taking place to fully adhere to local legal requirements, which vary per location, are complex, and take time,” a Google spokesperson said in response to questions from Bloomberg.
In Paris, where Google has around 1,600 employees, a works council is in talks with the company over how many employees — and what types — will be included in a voluntary collective departure plan. People familiar with the process say a resolution could still be weeks away, and in the meantime, things will continue as usual. According to an employee who requested anonymity, management made it clear that nobody would be forced out.
By contrast, in the UK, where labor protections are not as stringent, an estimated 500 out of 8,000 Googlers<\/a> will have to leave, according to Unite the Union representative Matthew Waley — a 6% redundancy rate consistent with the firm’s global target. Talks with the works council will result in confidential severance packages, but the number of departures is not up for negotiation. “They are trying to do the legal minimum,” Waley said, referring to the ongoing bargaining process.
The same is true in Dublin, where unions claim that Google is planning to oust 240 employees, and in Zurich, where unions said the number of layoffs affects more than 200 people.
Employees recently set up a cross-country Google works council for EU countries, which includes the UK and Switzerland. It is expected to be operational in about six months, and will be a powerful collective voice in future consultations. According to Waley, this represents “a big change,” as the company will have to give employees much more advance notice of reorganizations. This European Works Council will be comprised of representatives who are Google employees and will serve for a four-year term. Council members will liaise with Google management, and be headquartered in Dublin, documents show.
While the different standards of treatment have not created friction among Google employees spread around the world, “people have realized the way things happen in the US versus France and Germany” are different, says Parul Koul, executive chair of the Alphabet Workers Union and a software engineer at Google based in New York.
“It is inspiring for people in the US to see things are different in other places – it’s a blueprint for what people can fight for,” they added.
Job cuts aren’t just affecting tech workers. Between October and March, executives around the world cut about half a million employees around the world, according to a review by Bloomberg News. Still, reductions in the tech industry have been particularly severe after many companies admitted to expanding too aggressively after seeing a surge in traffic during Covid-19 lockdowns. Once schools, offices and shops began to reopen, growth in web-based services from social media use to food delivery apps slowed dramatically, forcing executives to reevaluation their outlooks.
More than 170,000 full-time tech workers are employed on the continent and in the UK by Amazon<\/a>, Alphabet and Meta, with software engineers often earning salaries that are half as much as their counterparts in the US.
At Amazon France<\/a>, with about 1,500 office employees in Paris, some senior managers with between 5 and 8 years of experience were offered up to a year’s pay to leave, according to a person familiar. The person said that departing employees were allowed to stay on so-called “gardening leave” until May, when Amazon shares vest and are paid out as bonuses.
In previous years, employees were offered less than a month of compensation per year worked, one of the people said.
At Amazon’s German arm, a person familiar said that the company has started laying off people still in their probationary periods, and offering proposals for voluntary departures.
In Luxembourg, according to a person familiar, exiting Amazon employees have been offered a month’s salary per year of service, with extra pay determined by national laws. Layoff offers began the middle of last month, the person added, and people will depart on either April 1 or June 1 depending on whether they’ve opted into a two-month window to search for a job internally.
An Amazon spokesperson declined to comment on specific cases. Amazon’s CEO Andy Jassy said in January that the company would be communicating with impacted employees, or where applicable, with employee representative bodies.
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在美国,公司宣布大规模裁员,可以让成百上千的工人在几个月内,许多人。与此同时,在欧洲,质量裁员在科技公司停滞不前,因为劳动保护,使其几乎不可能把人在一些国家事先磋商与员工利益集团。
这使得成千上万的科技工作者在地狱,不确定是否会影响谈判无限期拖延。
在法国,谷歌父字母表inc .)目前正在谈判减少通过自愿离职员工,提供遣散费,希望是大方地让工人离开,知情人士说,要求不透露姓名,因为信息不公开。亚马逊试图得到一些高级经理辞职一样晃来晃去的一年的工资,并同意离职员工,所以他们的股票背心,可以发放奖金,一位知情人士表示。
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在法国和德国,劳动法是欧盟中最强大的,谷歌目前正在谈判工作委员会,公司组织的选举员工代表与管理劳动力问题进行谈判,据知情人士透露。根据法律规定,公司必须讨价还价这些委员会在实施裁员之前——有时是漫长的过程,包括信息收集、谈判和追索权的可能性。
由于这些需求,知情人士说,谷歌在德国和法国将一些最后的位置受削减,即使。
当置评,谷歌承认谈判,并补充说,这是不打算实施裁员在罗马尼亚,希腊或奥地利。
“我们一直认真工作,分别在每个国家在减少正在发生全面遵守当地法律要求,每个位置不同,是复杂的,需要时间,”谷歌的一名发言人表示在回应彭博的提问。
在巴黎,谷歌有大约1600名员工,一个工作委员会正与公司有多少员工,什么类型都包括在一个自愿的集体离职计划。知情人士说决议过程仍有可能几周时间,但与此同时,事情会继续像往常一样。据一位要求匿名的员工、管理明确表示,没有人会被排除在外。
相比之下,在英国,在那里劳动保护并不是严格的,估计有500 8000谷歌员工将不得不离开,据团结工会代表马修·韦利——6%的冗余率符合公司的全球目标。谈判与劳资委员会将导致机密遣散费,但是离职的数量不是议付。“他们试图做法定最低,“韦利说,他指的是正在进行的谈判过程。
在都柏林也是如此,工会声称,谷歌计划推翻240名员工,并在苏黎世,工会表示,裁员的数量影响了超过200人。
员工最近建立了一个越野谷歌工作委员会欧盟国家,包括英国和瑞士。预计将在大约6个月投入运营,未来将是一个强大的集体声音磋商。韦利称,这是“一个巨大的变化,”该公司必须给员工更多的预先通知的重组。这个欧洲工作委员会将由谷歌员工和代表,任期四年。委员会成员将与谷歌管理,总部设在都柏林,文件显示。
虽然不同标准的治疗没有创建谷歌员工之间的摩擦在世界各地传播,“人们已经意识到事情发生的方式在美国与法国和德国”是不同的,说Parul Koul,字母表工人联合会执行主席和一名软件工程师在谷歌总部设在纽约。
“这是鼓舞人心的让美国人看到在其他地方是相同的,这是一个人们可以争取的蓝图,”他们补充说。
裁员并不是影响技术工人。10月和3月之间,世界各地的高管们削减一半世界各地的一百万名员工,根据彭博新闻审查。乐动扑克不过,削减后的科技行业尤为严重许多公司承认扩张也积极在看到流量激增期间Covid-19封锁。一次学校,办公室和商店开始重启,基于web的服务的增长从社交媒体使用到食品交付应用大幅放缓,迫使高管重新评估他们的前景。
超过170000名全职技术工人在欧洲大陆和英国亚马逊字母和元,软件工程师通常挣工资,一半在美国同行。
在亚马逊法国在巴黎,约有1500名办公室员工,一些高级经理5至8年的经验提供长达一年的薪水离开,据一位熟悉。人说离职员工被允许呆在所谓的“园艺假”到五月,当亚马逊股票背心和发放奖金。
在前几年,员工提供每年不到一个月的补偿,一位知情人士说。
在亚马逊的德国的手臂,一位知情人士说,该公司已经开始裁员人们还在试用期,并提供建议自愿离职。
在卢森堡,据一位熟悉,退出亚马逊员工提供服务每年一个月的工资,加班工资由国家法律。裁员提供上个月中旬开始,这位人士还说,人们将在4月1日或6月1日离开取决于他们选择到两个月窗口内部寻找一份工作。
亚马逊的发言人拒绝评论具体的情况。亚马逊的首席执行官安迪·雅西1月表示,该公司将与影响沟通的员工,或在适用情况下,员工的代表机构。
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