US IT giant Google announced on the 20th that it will cut about 12,000 employees as it has become inevitable to review costs against the backdrop of the global economic slowdown.
This was revealed by Google CEO Sundar Pichai in a message to employees on the company's official blog.
Among them, the reason for the reduction in personnel is that the economic environment has become difficult against the backdrop of the global economic slowdown, and it has become inevitable to review costs. decided to reduce the
Affected employees in the US have already been notified by email.
Pichai said, ``Now is the time to focus our business, rebuild our cost structure, and direct our human resources and capital to priority areas.''
In the United States, this month, Microsoft announced that it would cut 10,000 people, and Amazon announced that it would expand its workforce cuts to over 18,000. The impact of the economic slowdown is increasing among major IT companies that have maintained strong performance even during the corona crisis.