On Google layoffs, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that “clearly this is not the right way to do it”. Last year, Google had suddenly laid off 12 thousand employees in a sudden announcement, see what Pichai said next?
Sundar Pichai on Google layoffs “wasn’t right”
Google layoffs: Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced layoffs of 12,000 employees, saying “clearly this is not the right way to do it”. This comes a year after Google announced it was laying off 12,000 employees, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the way they informed employees was “not right.”
According to Insider’s report, in the all-party meeting held on Tuesday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai was asked about the decision to fire so many employees. In it, an employee asked Pichai, “It’s been almost a year since we made the difficult decision to reduce our workforce. What impact has this decision had on our growth, P&L, and morale?” Where Pichai was asked this question.
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Google’s CEO responded that the Google layoffs “clearly had a big impact on morale. This is reflected in the comments and feedback in Googlegeist”.
Google had laid off 12,000 employees in 2022, which was the biggest layoff in the history of this company and at that time no one was ready to answer. Sundar Pichai, when asked a question by an employee after about a year, also explained the reason for this big layoff.
Googlegeist survey that measures employee satisfaction on various aspects. This shows the dissatisfaction of the employees due to the recent retrenchment of 12,000 employees. Pichai has acknowledged the difficulty of this layoff and described it as a unique moment in Google’s history which could have been the darkest decision for the future if this decision had not been taken.
“It’s difficult for any company to go through this and so far at Google, we really haven’t seen a moment like this in 25 years,” Pichai said. “It became clear that, if we had not taken action, this would have been an even worse decision in the future. What could have been a major crisis for the company would have been very difficult in a year. Big change in the world to create the ability to invest,” Sundar Pichai said this. Also: Musk Starlink satellite internet service will soon be available on mobile
The report also stated that Pichai specifically said that it was not a good idea to inform all concerned employees at the same time, regardless of time zone. “Obviously this is not the right way to do this and I think it’s something we certainly could have done differently,” he concluded. And immediate removal was “a very difficult decision”.
In this entire report, Sundar Pichai says that layoffs were necessary for long-term growth and investment in new areas. Google has made small layoffs in various departments since January and it will now take care and continue these small layoffs over time so that once again more people do not have to leave Google.
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