At a recent meeting, Sundar Pichai, CEO, Google, conveyed the decision to lay off 10 per cent of the managers in the company’s workforce, including directors and vice presidents. This trimming is part of Google’s efforts to streamline processes, make operations more efficient and also cut costs in the process amidst stiff competition, as per a Business Insider report.
The objective of the cuts is to reduce the team size by 10 per cent and try to increase efficiency by 20 per cent. Some of the impacted managers will be reassigned to roles that will require them to be individual contributors, while other roles will be done away with for good.
At the meeting, Pichai also clarified that the ‘Googleyness’ that is expected in Googlers (Google employees) is all to do with innovation, team work and goals/mission.
‘Googleyness’ is what describes an ideal candidate who is hired to join the Google team.
In June this year, Google’s cloud-computing unit executed layoffs across several teams that led to about a 100 people losing their jobs. Google had already conducted multiple rounds of layoffs since the beginning of the year, including a reduction of at least 200 employees from its ‘core’ teams. About 50 roles were axed from the engineering team operating out of the California headquarters. At the time it was reported that some of the jobs were expected to be relocated overseas, primarily to India and Mexico.
