joel rosenblatt for sticking around.g up the sobering reality of layoffs going viral this week. this is bloomberg. ♪ when you automate sales tax with avalara, you don't have to worry about things like changing tax rates or filing returns. avalarahhh ahhh >> going viral the reality behind the tens of thousands of tech workers who lost their jobs #layoffs was trending on twitter. shrinking its global workforce by about 6%. one tweet caught our attention. even though it imo went out to google employees some who missed it were waiting in line to badge in to their offices. we haven't corroborated this ourselves but it was notable that people were responding to that. it's really tough to get these messages across. >> google layoffs is the number one trend on google trends. that is the reality we are in. >> we will keep you abreast of all that news. this does it for bloomberg technology. >> apple, spotify, where ever you get it, this is bloomberg. hi, i'm katie, i've lost 110 pounds on golo in just over a year. golo is differen