The layoff season continues to be a stressful time for employees and people are sharing their stories on social media platforms about how they were fired after giving so much to their company. But, a former senior Google manager has a different story to share. After being laid off, Henry Kirk founded his own company with six other former Google employees affected by the layoffs.
Kirk worked at Google for eight years and was fired after the company recently laid off 12,000 employees in line with cost-cutting measures. He, along with six other employees affected by the layoffs, established a design and development studio in New York and San Francisco in only six weeks.
They intended to set up the company before the 60-day layoff deadline expired in March. Sharing this in a LinkedIn post, Kirk said, "I have 52 days left. I need your help...I've always been a big believer that hard work and results will get you very far in life Although this incident may raise doubts." In that belief, it is my experience that these life challenges present unique opportunities."
"Today, I'm taking a leap and turning this tragedy into an opportunity. I'm teaming up with 6 outstanding #xooglers to shape our future and make it our own. We're a design co-founder in NYC and SF. And starting a development studio. Yes. This is probably the worst time ever to do this. But that's the exciting and challenging part."
Kirk's company plans to offer design and research tools to other companies' applications and websites. The company will help engineering projects with the necessary knowledge and support and help them grow.
"Seven great ex-Googlers have been fired up, who are eager (and we'll do it fast) to research, design and develop ambitious software projects," Kirk said.
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