Google CEO Sundar Pichai has warned all employees to be ready to face this challenge, hinting at job cuts this year.
Citing an internal memo, The Verge report said that in a week Google has fired more than a thousand employees from various departments and it is expected that the jobs of more employees will be cut. Will go.
In the memorandum, Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees that, we have ambitious goals and our goal this year is to invest in big priorities, for which we will have to make difficult choices. So as to be able to access the necessary investment.
The latest role eliminations are not on the scale of last year’s cuts and will not impact all teams, Pichai said in the memo. He further said that I know that it is very difficult to see the impact of job cuts on colleagues and teams.
The Google CEO said this year’s layoffs are being done to simplify implementation and increase speed in certain areas. Many of these changes have already been announced.
Last week, Google fired about 1,000 employees and it is being told that Google is going to cut a few hundred more jobs in its advertising sales team.
In a memo to employees, Google Chief Business Officer Philip Schindler said the latest cuts are the result of a change in how Google’s sales team operates, Business Insider reported.
Google is eliminating a few hundred roles as part of a global restructuring, a Google spokesperson confirmed.
Google had also cut 12 thousand employees in January last year, which was a reduction of about 6 percent of full-time employees.