Google News: Veteran Serge Engine Gagool has fired more than one-third of the managers looking at the work of small teams. This information was given by an executive to the employee last week. According to the CNBC report, Google’s Vice President and Performance, Brian Welle said in an all-hand meeting that the company’s focus is on increasing its work capacity and due to this, the number of managers has been reduced by 35%. According to the information, under this, the managers who used to see teams of less than three people were removed. Most of these managers still remained as individual contributors with the company.
What about job security in Google?
Recently, in the meeting regarding the changes in sorting, acquisition and the structure of the company several times, the employees asked Velle and other executives about the job security. Regarding this, Velle said that the company aims to reduce the bureaucracy and work with more capacity to the company. He said that in view of the leadership i.e. managers, directors and vice presidents, it was decided that their share in the entire workforce should be reduced over time.
This is the company’s strategy
Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in the meeting that the company needs to become more efficient, so that every problem is not solved only by increasing the number of employees. The company had discharged about 6% of its employees in the year 2023 and has been cut in many departments since then. Anat Ashkenazi, Chief Finance Officer of Google’s Parent Company Alphabet, was associated with the company last year and said in October that she would take the cost cut a little further i.e. this process is not going to stop. Google has been offering an employee to get out of the company on its own free will this year and the company has also slowed the recruitment, which has to do more work in less resources.
Regarding the byout, Executives said in the town hall that teams of search, marketing, hardware and People Operations were given its option this year and Google Chief People Officer Fiona Cicconi said that 3% to 5% of these teams have been selected. According to Fina, it was quite successful and it can be continued even further. Sundar Pichai says that it was implemented after consulting the employees, who said that he would prioritize the farewell fixed himself instead of a large -scale trimming. According to Fiona, many employees are taking Byout because they want to take a break from work for some time.