Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Feb 17: Tech giant Google have sacked around 450 employees across various departments in India at night on Thursday. The employees were reportedly informed of their termination through mail.
The mail was sent by Sanjay Gupta, Country Head and Vice President of Google India, according to moneycontrol. Hindu businessline, which also carried the report quoting its sources, reported that Email sent seeking comments from Google India did not extract any reply.
It is not clear whether the 453 layoffs include the 12,000 job cuts announced by Google parent company Alphabet Inc. in January. At the time, Sundar Pichai said the job cuts were made in a bid to act decisively as the company’s growth slowed. “If you don’t act clearly and decisively and early, we can compound the problem and make it much worse. These are decisions I needed to make,” Pichai said, according to Bloomberg.
Alphabet-owned YouTube has also appointed Neal Mohan, an Indian-American, as its next CEO after its current head announced that she will be stepping down from her role to focus on family, health, and personal projects.
Notably, Google is the latest among the Silicon Valley giant looking to lighten payrolls after years of rich expansion and hiring. Yahoo Inc is reportedly planning to lay off more than 20% of its entire workface as part of a major reorganization of its ad tech unit, Axios reported, citing company executives.
Earlier in January, Microsoft announced 10,000 job cuts or nearly 5 per cent of its workforce. Amazon also is cutting 18,000 jobs. Meta let go over 11,000 workers last year, 13% of its workforce, in its first major layoff.
