New Delhi: Google’s parent company Alphabet has decided to lay off 12,000 of its employees worldwide. Google CEO has told in an e-mail sent to employees on Friday that the company Alphabet is going to lay off 12000 people. According to Google, Google employees will be affected by this layoff all over the world but Google employees in the US will be affected immediately. Let us tell you that, two days ago, the tech company Microsoft also announced the layoff of 10,000 employees.
After this announcement by Google, all teams will be affected along with recruitment along with corporate function, engineering, and products teams. Google said that this layoff is being done globally and its effect will be visible immediately in the US. The reason for layoffs in Google is economic uncertainty, but the great thing is that this is being done at a time when companies are making big promises at the level of technology.
In Google and Microsoft are investing in a new area of software known as Generative Artificial Intelligence. “Driven by the strength of our mission, our products and services, and our early investments in artificial intelligence, there is a huge opportunity ahead of us,’ Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said in the note.”
Microsoft fired 10 thousand employees
Earlier, the global giant tech company Microsoft fired 10,000 of its employees. Information about this retrenchment has been given in the company’s regulatory filing. This is five percent of its total employees working worldwide. The company is taking this step due to the current economic conditions and changing consumer preferences.
