Google’s parent company Alphabet has announced it will lay off 12,000 employees – joining other tech giants akin to Microsoft and Amazon this week to provide out pink vouchers to a complete of 28,000 people.
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai sent word to employees of the Mountain View search engine in California that the layoffs will be implemented immediately at the corporate’s US offices.
In response to Pichai, Google employees in other countries whose jobs are on the point of collapse will face an extended termination process “on account of local laws and practices.”
The CEO said employees made redundant will receive 16 weeks of severance pay along with two weeks for every additional 12 months they work at Google.
“This will mean saying goodbye to some incredibly talented people we have worked hard for and loved working with,” Pichai wrote in his memo. “I’m very sorry for that reason”.
Pichai added, “The proven fact that these changes will affect the lives of Google employees weighs heavily on me and I take full responsibility for the choices that brought us here.”
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The pinnacle of Google said that the corporate’s rapid growth in recent times has led it to rent many employees “for a distinct economic reality than the one we face today.”
In recent months, Pichai has been bouncing and weaving, avoiding clear-cut answers to employees’ questions on possible layoffs at all-employee and city hall meetings.
Google executives last fall fueled employees’ fears of impending layoffs after it froze employment and urged its teams to be more productive during working hours.
Earlier this week, Seattle-based e-commerce giant Amazon began notifying some 18,000 employees that their services would not be needed by the corporate.
“Unfortunately, your role has been eliminated,” Beth Galetti, Amazon’s director of human resources, wrote in an email.
“You not need to do any work on behalf of Amazon with immediate effect.”
Other tech giants akin to Microsoft, Meta, Snap and Twitter have also downsized amid economic uncertainty across the tech sector.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella circulated a company-wide memo on Wednesday announcing that the software giant Windows would lay off about 5% of its 221,000 employees – or 10,000 employees – off the payroll.
In response to The Wall Street Journal, hours before sending Nadella’s memo to employees, Microsoft hired the famous rocker “The Police”, Sting, to perform at an intimate meeting of fifty people on the sidelines of the annual World Economic Forum in Davos.
The data was first reported by Reuters.