In response to global layoffs at Alphabet, Google employees in Switzerland held a walk out on Wednesday to demonstrate solidarity with those who have been laid off from their office. This is not the first time these workers have walked out, as they had held a walkout last month to protest the upcoming layoffs. Swiss Google employees are particularly discontented with the workforce reduction given that thousands of them had offered to reduce their wages and working hours in order to prevent such layoffs. While layoffs have been sweeping the tech industry as a whole recently, Google has been making large profits which has also frustrated employees experiencing job cuts.
See "In Switzerland, Google employees walk out of the office in protest of company layoffs ", Martin Coulter , Reuters, March 15, 2023