he grew head count 20% compared to meta and face count where they doubled head count. same thing with amazon. get back to what i told you about the the really expensive severance packages. i spoke to alphabet s cfo. bring up that quote as well. they hired 3,500 at the end of last year. remember that alphabet said they re cutting 12,000 jobs. there s this distortion effect taking place. there s a lag effect in terms of when we ll see the job cuts in these payrolls. it s an excellent observation. these are massive companies. when you hear about a few thousand laid off, you have to remember in percentage terms, still every lay off is tough. but in percentage terms, still very small. susan, great job as always. appreciate it. martha: thank you, neil. neil: the administration wanted to grow more about the jobs report today and the signals they re sending for the economy. not so much about a certain balloon.
google s parent company, alphabet, says it s cutting 12,000 jobs which affects 6% of its workforce worldwide, in teams including recruitment and engineering. the news comes just days after another tech giant, microsoft, announced it was shedding 10,000 jobs. well, joining me now is our news reporter azadeh moshiri. what more do we know about these cut at google and how did they break the news to staff? the ceo thing to his staff are working so hard and their contributions had been invaluable but that is little comfort to those who actually are losing theirjobs because they are also being told their contributions are no longer needed. he tried to couch the blue, he said that google and alphabet would help them as they look for their next opportunities and he said that they would be getting severance packages and we know that they
places in government, including the new republican majority in the house. most definitely. thank you so much for spending time with us today. miles taylor is sticking with us for the hour. when we return, chaos at twitter, as elon musk shakes up the social network platform s legal team and considers ending severance packages. plus, new signs that republicans just might be ready to dump trump. we say this all the time, but seriously, it might happen this time. and concern over the supreme court s growing politicalization was already bad. now it s getting worse as brett kavanaugh parties with a who s who of top leaders with the conservative right. deadline: white house continues after a break. house continues after a break. for you, like making them softer and fresher. plus, downy fights fading and stretching. make your laundry softer, fresher,
New Twitter owner Elon Musk is poised to cut the company's workforce by 50%. Those employees should be in line for guaranteed severance unless Musk once again attempts to push the envelope of what's legal.