453 employees laid off by Google

Bangalore: As high as 453 employees has been laid off by Google in February 16 as reported by The Hindu Business Line yesterday.

The Vice President and country head of Google India Sanjay Gupta informed of the layoffs through an email to the employees.

The employees took to Linkedin to express their ire.

An ex account manage at Google wrote that he was a part of Google India layoffs. At the company his energies were focused on delivering digital marketing goals for multiple industries at the top of their food chain in India as a strategic key account manager. He is now looking for a new role.

Google announced in January that it will cut 12,000 jobs around the world, because of changed economic realities.

The Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai had said that over the past two years they have seen periods of dramatic growth. It is to match and fuel that growth they had hired for a different economic reality.

Layoffs at Google came close on the heels of massive job cuts by Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and Twitter.

Slashing of jobs at Disney also made headline in the recent weeks. The company laid off 7,000 employees last week amid a decline in streaming subscribers.

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