Google has cut its top executive roles by 10 percent in a move to boost efficiency. Sundar Pichai, the CEO, said this at an all-hands meeting, saying the company has continued to simplify structures. This follows large-scale layoffs this year and a warning of more cuts next year.
At the behest of Google, an estimated 10% of top management positions have been scrapped in a years-long efficiency drive. This was reported by Business Insider on Wednesday as a part of an all-hands meeting that was held earlier this week by CEO Sundar Pichai with employees. According to reports, Pichai said that Google has undertaken these changes in the last couple of years with the objective of “simplifying the company and making it more efficient.” A quote from the article contained two employees who say they are part of the town hall and heard CEO Pichai.
According to sources, the report stated that with regard to the details, Pichai had said that the efficiency push included a 10% reduction in managers, directors, and vice presidents. As per the statement given to the publication by the spokesperson of Google, out of those designations, some of them have changed into non-managerial roles while others have been completely eliminated.
The biggest Job Cuts of Google’s Pichai in September 2022 made him 20% more efficient and then preceded the company’s announcement that the first month of 2023 would witness another layoff of about 12,000 jobs. A month later, in January 2023, Pichai announced to the staff about the year’s more than 12,000 job cuts, among the ‘biggest-ever cuts in history by Google’. It was on January 20, 2023, that Alphabet, the mother company of Google, announced that it had plans to downsize its workforce globally by about six percent. As published in a letter, the CEO of Google and affiliated Alphabet Sundar Pichai said the company had “hired for a different economic reality” than the one into which it was entering today. We’ve taken a very large-scale internal, across product areas and functions review to align our people and role with the highest priorities as a company,” said Pichai while pointing out that the layoffs will be there across Alphabet and not only Google, but it will also affect every region and product area.
In January 2024, Google CEO Sundar Pichai sent a memo to its employees warning them of further layoffs this year. Pichai said, “We will have to make some really tough calls” if the company is to meet its very ambitious target. Though not as extensive as layoff activities in 2023, layoff activities in Google for 2024 saw many employees go into several divisions. “Googleyness” is getting a new meaning. At this week’s all-hands, Google CEO Pichai also added that the word has become quite broad in interpretation. He explained what it would mean for the company. It is now ‘Mission First’ and ‘Bold and Responsible,’ so it has a new meaning in terms of what it really means.
