Google staff walk out in Zurich over global job cuts

Google has been urged to engage in dialogue with an employee committee over the global job cuts.

About 250 employees from Google in Zurich walked out to protest the company’s decision last month to cut about 6% of its global workforce.

The workers, with support from trade union Syndicom, walked away from their desks before lunchtime and assembled with placards outside one of two Google offices in the Swiss city, according to union spokesman Dominik Fitze.