Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai-led company fires entire Python team for ‘cheaper labour’

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Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai-led company fires entire Python team for ‘cheaper labour’
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Google layoffs: The company plans to set up a new team in Munich, Germany which would act as "cheaper" labour, the report claimed.

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München is not cheap city to reside in nor are the suburbs.

True, but San Francisco is one of the most expensive cities in the world. Munich is the most expensive place to live in Germany and one of the most expensive in Europe so the move is still somewhat questionable.

Someone else in the comments said that it might be due to having a workforce in Munich that can't be easily fired because of German labor laws, and that could be an explanation