It felt like one of the last holdouts, but Google has confirmed that it was joining its tech peers and laying off 12,000 staff or 6 per cent of its global workforce. It was the first major round of layoffs in Google/Alphabet’s almost 25 years of operations and, as a result, Apple is now the only one of the Big Tech brands not to have cut staff in the last 12 months. The “tech wreck” that started with a stock market correction in November 2021 has now morphed into what seems like an endless round of cost-cutting and layoffs at…

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