Google has become the latest technology company to announce mass layoffs, as it today told employees it was eliminating 12,000 roles.
Employees were informed of the redundancies this morning via email, in a message from Google and Alphabet boss Sundar Pichai that was also posted to the company’s blog.
Titled “A difficult decision to set us up for the future”, the post blamed the job losses on “difficult economic cycles”. Google previously hired staff based on the “dramatic growth” it had seen over the past two years, Pichai stated, which now did not reflect the “economic reality” today.
