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Google parent Alphabet Inc. said it will cut about 12,000 jobs, more than 6% of its global workforce, becoming the latest tech giant to retrench after years of abundant growth and hiring.

Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has announced that the American tech giant is cutting approximately 12,000 jobs, which is around 6 per cent of its global workforce. Read on for details:

Google is laying off 12,000 workers, or about 6% of its workforce, becoming the latest tech company to trim staff as the economic boom that the industry rode during the COVID-19 pandemic ebbs.

Google’s parent company Alphabet said on Friday it would cut 12,000 jobs globally, citing a changing “economic reality”, becoming the latest US tech giant to enact large-scale restructuring.

“We hired for a different economic reality than the one we face today,” CEO Sundar Pichai said Friday in an email to staff that was also posted on the company’s news blog.

Google has more than 5,000 employees in the UK

It comes after other companies including Microsoft, Amazon and Meta recently announced plans to axe workers.

The announcement comes amid uncertainty in the tech industry with many firms announcing job cuts

Company is latest large US tech player to announce sweeping job losses as global outlook weakens

Alphabet Inc is eliminating 12,000 jobs, its chief executive said in a staff memo shared with Reuters. The cuts mark the latest to shake the technology sector and come days after rival Microsoft Corp said it would lay off 10,000 workers. The job losses affect teams across the company including…

The tech giant has almost 6,000 staff in the UK