Google's Parent Firm Alphabet To Cut 12,000 Jobs Globally: Report

After Meta, Twitter and Amazon, Google's parent company Alphabet has announced its plans to cut roughly 12,000 jobs.

By : ABP News Bureau | Updated at : 20 Jan 2023 09:34 PM (IST)

Google Parent Alphabet Job Cuts Globally Sundar Pichai Economic Slowdown Google's Parent Firm Alphabet To Cut 12,000 Jobs Globally: Report

The job cuts across Alphabet will impact employees globally and across the entire company. ( Image: Getty )

After Meta, Twitter and Amazon, Google's parent company Alphabet has announced its plans to cut roughly 12,000 jobs. The tech behemoth is planning to reduce its staff by 6 per cent. This will be the company’s biggest-ever round of layoffs amid economic slowdown, the media has reported.

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The tech behemoth will provide severance packages that include vacation, bonus pay and healthcare, says a report by news agency Bloomberg.

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The job cuts across Alphabet will impact employees globally and across the entire company, company CEO Sundar Pichai told employees in an email on Friday. Pichai reportedly added that he takes “full responsibility for the decisions that led us here."

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The reductions will cut across Alphabet units and geographies, the company said, though some areas, including recruiting and projects outside of the company’s core businesses, would be more heavily affected, says a report by The Wall Street Journal.

"Googlers, I have some difficult news to share. We’ve decided to reduce our workforce by approximately 12,000 roles. We’ve already sent a separate email to employees in the US who are affected. This will mean saying goodbye to some incredibly talented people we worked hard to hire and have loved working with. I’m deeply sorry for that. I take full responsibility for the decisions that led us here. Over the past two years we’ve seen periods of dramatic growth. To match and fuel that growth, we hired for a different economic reality than the one we face today," said Pichai in his letter to his employees.

With the layoffs, Google parent now joins the likes of tech giants such as Meta, Amazon and Twitter that have drastically scaled back operations. However, courtesy of resilient search business, Google was one of the longest tech holdouts.