A tense all-hands meeting at Google leaves employees worried about layoffs

A tense all-hands meeting at Google leaves employees worried about layoffs

After today, there are only two more Mondays left in 2022. This is Matt Weinberger, Insider's deputy editor of tech analysis, filling in once again for Jordan Parker Erb. She'll be back in time to write tomorrow's edition, so never fear. Last week was a big week for news, in a year that's been full of big weeks for news — the , Meta employees were reportedly , and Oh, and Insider released its . With all of that going on, it's perhaps not super surprising that Friday was a little quieter, at least in the world of tech. Which isn't to say that it was boring: , that layoffs aren't under consideration, and it turned out that former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried had been for the last year or so, as per Axios. Let's go over what you need to know to get your week started. Insider's Hugh Langley reports on a tense all-hands inside Google, where employees once again pushed CEO Sundar Pichai to comment on the possibility of layoffs. His response was that it's " ." as Elton John said on Friday that's he quitting Twitter, citing the spread of misinformation on the platform as the reason.