Google India layoffs 2023: Over 400 employees handed pink slip

Google India layoffs 2023: Google India has sacked more than 400 employees across various departments, according to a report by news agency IANS. A few impacted workers took to LinkedIn to share their plight. Google India layoff is part of the larger job cuts that has impacted 12,000 workers globally at the company.

An account manager at Google's Gurugram office, Kamal Dave wrote on LinkedIn, "I was a part of Google India Layoffs yesterday. At Google my 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/consultant."

"I am looking for a new role and would appreciate your support. Thank you in advance for any connections, advice, or opportunities you can offer," Dave posted.

A Google India employee who survived the layoffs said it "is really difficult to see them (colleagues) go through this".

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"It is even more difficult, as you don't know how to talk to them, what to say," the employee added.

Employees, who survived the recent layoffs at Google, are worried and have demanded assurances that their jobs are not next to be axed by the company during a recent all-hands meeting with top bosses.

Denying that the layoffs were done "randomly", Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai had said earlier that he is "deeply sorry" for reducing the workforce.

In an email to employees, Pichai said he takes "full responsibility for the decisions that led us here".

The layoffs at Google's parent company were expected amid the deepening funding winter that has hit companies of all sizes in the global slowdown and recession fears.

(With IANS inputs)

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