A woman who worked for Google for almost a decade says she was in the hospital bed holding her hours-old newborn when she learned she was part of the 'golden12K' of laid-off Googlers

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The woman, who works in the product, sales and strategy ops, has not yet heard from Google about the status of her maternity leave benefits.

Kate Howells gave birth to her second child on January 19.

She used the hashtag #thegolden12k, which has been used by a number of other ex-Google employees posting about their retrenchment.

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Published On: 2023-01-26 @ 01:53:11 (1 months ago)

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