Google India Laid Off 453 Employees

Mail sent by the Country Head and Vice President of Google India…

New Delhi: Late night on Thursday, Tech giant Google is learnt to have sacked around 450 employees across various departments in India.

The employees were informed of their termination via mail, a report says.

The mail was sent by Sanjay Gupta who is Country’s Head and Vice President of Google India, according to moneycontrol.

Hindu business line, which also carried a report quoting its sources, reported that Google India is yet to respond to its Email sent with queries on the development.

It is not clear whether the 453 layoffs include the 12,000 job cuts announced by Google parent company Alphabet Inc. last month.

At the time, Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Alphabet Inc., said the job cuts were made in a bid to act decisively as the company's growth slowed.

"If you don't act clearly and decisively, we can compound the problem and make it much worse. These are decisions I needed to make," Mr. Pichai said, according to Bloomberg.

Alphabet-owned YouTube has also appointed Neal Mohan, an Indian-American, as its next CEO after its head announced that she wants to step down from her role to focus on "family, health, and personal projects".

Google is the latest among the Silicon Valley behemoths looking to lighten payrolls after years of abundant growth and hiring.

Earlier in the month of January, Microsoft announced 10,000 job cuts or nearly 5 percent of its work places. Amazon is also cutting 18,000 jobs.

Meta let go over 11,000 workers in 2022, 13% of its workforce, in its first layoff.