Google to cut 12,000 jobs from global workforce

Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google, said Friday that it will cut about 12,000 jobs from its global workforce, affecting approximately 6% of the company's employees.

"I have some difficult news to share," Google's CEO Sundar Pichai wrote in an email to Google employees on Friday morning. "We’ve decided to reduce our workforce by

approximately 12,000 roles ... This will mean saying goodbye to some incredibly talented people we worked hard to hire and have loved working with. I’m deeply sorry for that. The

fact that these changes will impact the lives of Googlers weighs heavily on me, and I take full responsibility for the decisions that led us here."MORE: Mark Zuckerberg

announces Meta will lay off 11,000 employees Employees who are being laid off in the United States will be paid during the notification period -- a minimum of 60 days -- and

will also receive a severance package starting at 16 weeks salary plus two weeks for every additional year they spent at Google. Google also said that they would pay out

the 2022 bonuses and remaining vacation time to the employees that are being laid off as well as "six months of healthcare, job placement services, and immigration support for

those affected." "As an almost 25-year-old company, we’re bound to go through difficult economic cycles. These are important moments to sharpen our focus, reengineer our

cost base, and direct our talent and capital to our highest priorities," Pichai said. "Being constrained in some areas allows us to bet big on others. Pivoting the company to be

AI-first years ago led to groundbreaking advances across our businesses and the whole industry."