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Media: Google Group Alphabet cuts 12,000 jobs
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Microsoft has already done it, as has the Facebook group Meta and Amazon. According to reports, the Google group Alphabet also wants to cut five-digit jobs. Why?
As the next heavyweight in the tech industry, Google parent company Alphabet wants to cut thousands of jobs, according to media reports. Around 12,000 jobs are to be lost worldwide, according to the Bloomberg financial service and the Wall Street Journal on Friday, citing an email from company boss Sundar Pichai to employees. This corresponds to around six percent of the workforce. Areas outside the core business should therefore be more affected. Initially, there was no official information from Alphabet.
Just this week, Microsoft announced that it would cut 10,000 jobs. Before that, Amazon announced that it would cut 18,000 jobs and the Facebook group Meta of 11,000 jobs. With the booming business in the corona pandemic, the tech companies had increased their number of employees, in some cases significantly. Recently, however, business development has slowed down, among other things due to economic concerns and high inflation.
Bloomberg report Report in the “Wall Street Journal”