Google engineer, 31, jumps to his death from the 14th floor tech company’s NYC headquarters
Google engineer, 31, jumps to his death from tech company’s 14th floor headquarters in NYC
- A Google engineer, 31, jumped to his death from the 14th floor of the company’s New York City headquarters
- The man, who has not been publicly identified, was found on the floor on the 15th Street side of the building around 11:30 p.m.
A 31-year-old Google technician jumped to his death from the 14th floor of the company’s headquarters in New York City.
The man, who has not been publicly identified, was found on the floor on the 15th Street side of the building around 11:30 p.m. Thursday.
Police received multiple calls about the incident and authorities said he was found unconscious. He was rushed to Bellevue Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.
Officers found handprints on the ledge on the 14th floor, where there is an open-air terrace, sources told the New York Post.
According to the Post, no suicide note was left behind.
A 31-year-old Google engineer has jumped to his death from the 14th floor of the company’s headquarters in New York City (pictured)
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This is the second Google employee to reportedly take his own life when colleague Jacob Pratt, 33, was found dead in his apartment on Feb. 16.
Pratt appeared to have hanged himself, an NYPD source told the New York Post.
According to his LinkedIn, Pratt was a partnership leader at the company and had been for a year and a half. He joined Google in May 2019 as an agency manager.
His interests in advertising and technology led him to a dream job as an accounting manager at Google in Manhattan, according to his obituary.
Their deaths came shortly after Google laid off about 12,000 of its global workforce. It is unclear whether there is a job threat.
Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has cut 12,000 jobs in the latest savage round of white-collar layoffs in the tech sector.
The man, who has not been publicly identified, was found on the floor on the 15th Street side of the building around 11:30 p.m. Thursday. The police were actively working
He was found unconscious and rushed to Bellevue Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead
Sundar Pichai, Alphabet’s CEO, said the losses affect teams across the company, including recruiting and some corporate functions, as well as some engineering and product teams.
The massive cut comes just days after rival Microsoft Corp. said it would lay off 10,000 workers, and Amazon began laying off its 18,000 workers as “wealth” ripped through the world’s largest companies in recent months.
The most in-demand workers right now are blue-collar workers, while white-collar workers have experienced major job losses over the past year.
The phenomenon has been dubbed “richcession” by those in the field.
If you are experiencing suicidal thoughts or actions, call the National Suicide Hotline at 988.