On the morning of January 20, an employee Google he had to call tech support because he got an unusual error message when he tried to log into his work system. The other employee’s boss was on vacation, so they had no one to contact when word got out about layoffs.

A third person who worked in a group was abandoned in his sleep because his child was frightened by the noise on his phone, which was buzzing with messages asking if he was safe. Three employees who spoke to CNN on condition of anonymity were among the 12,000 employees Google fired that day.

And while the scale of the layoffs was shocking and the biggest layoffs in its history, many were alarmed by the way management handled them. It should be noted that over the years USA but also in many other countries of the world Google was named the ideal employer.

But she didn’t hesitate to fire even her veterans in an email, people who got sick and took sick leave, and an employee on maternity leave who had just given birth to her second child. Everyone left without any explanation. Workers didn’t know how many or who were affected by the layoffs, and those who were laid off didn’t even get a chance to say goodbye to colleagues or vacate their offices, former workers told CNN.

According to former employees, those who were fired did not even have time to say goodbye to colleagues or vacate their offices.

For many, Google’s approach to layoffs, though not unique, seemed inconsistent with its famous employee-centered philosophy, as important to its image as the search engine of the same name.

Employee care ranges from big payroll and benefits packages, on-site fitness centers and climbing walls, to free gourmet meals, on-site massages and childcare.

The company encouraged employees to share their opinions at work, even if it wasn’t painless. But for some former employees, the cuts are just the latest example of a change in mindset that has been going on at Google for years. Internal scandals are fixed, the departures of leaders, public control is increasing, more and more demands on management, and the reality itself shows that, perhaps, thanks to the efforts of the previous leadership, Google has become a giant.

Gradually, privileges are dwindling, access to senior management is being limited, and there is more emphasis on short-term business wins than long-term vision. “At the end of the day, and probably at the start of the day, there is ongoing commitment to revenue and seemingly endless growth,” another employee who was fired from Google in January’s mass layoffs told CNN. “And this happens without any thought of the well-being of the workers.”