Google executive says company has cut a third of its managers
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet, during the Google I/O developers conference in Mountain View on May 10, 2023 in California.
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Google One manager eliminated more than one third of his managers according to a manager who controls small teams, as he continued to focus on employees on the productivity of the company last week.
According to the sound of a whole meeting examined by CNBC, we have 35% less managers with less direct report than a year ago than a year ago. “
At the meeting, the employees asked Welle and other executives after occupational safety, “internal obstacles” and their last dismissal tours about Google’s culture. purchases and reorganizations.
Welle said the idea was to reduce the bureaucracy and carry out the company more efficiently.
“When we look at all our leadership population, these managers, directors and VPs want them to be a smaller percentage of our general labor force over time,” he said.
A 35% decrease in a person familiar with the issue refers to the number of managers who control less than three people. The person who wants to be named because the details are special, said that many of these managers remained as an individual participant.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai focused on the meeting and reiterated the company’s need to be more efficient as it was scaled, so we don’t solve everything with Headcount “.
In 2023, Google eliminated about 6% of the labor force and has been implemented in various sections since then. Anat Ashkenazi, Chief of Alphabet Finance, who joined the company last year, said that he would push cost cuts in October a little more. Since January, Google has offered purchases to employees and the company has slowed down recruitment and asked employees to do more with less.
Regarding the purchases, managers in the town hall, a total of 10 product areas “volunteer exit program” said. This year, they applied to US -based employees in search, marketing, hardware and human operation teams.
Google’s chief human officer Fiona Cicconi said that 3% to 5% of the employees in these teams accepted the acquisition at the meeting last week.
“This was actually quite successful,” he said and “I think we can continue.”
Pichai said that the company said that after listening to the employees who prefer the way to dismiss the blanket, he carried out voluntary purchases.
“There is a lot of work to implement the Vep program and I am happy to do this.” He said. “I am glad to give people agency and I am glad to see that it works well.”
‘Asking for a career break’
Cicconi said that one of the main reasons for the purchase of employees wanted to spend time work.
“It is quite interesting to see who gets a vep, and people ask for some kind of career break, sometimes to look at family members,” he said.
CNBC your layoffs before Moral injury while the company is shrinking while giving explosion gains and seeing the stock price skipping. The shares of the alphabet increased by 36% in 2024 this year and 10% after 58% in the previous year.
At another point of the town hall, employees asked if Google would think of a similar policy. Meta “Charging” is Sabbatikal that lasted for a month in which employees won in the company five years later.
Google’s Benefit Director Alexandra Maddison, “We have a lot of leaves, at least not our holiday, not exactly for that – rest and charging,” he said.
He said the company would not offer paid sabbatic.
Maddison, “We are more confident that our current proposal is competitive.” He said.
Meta did not respond immediately to the request for comments.
Other managers jumped to compare the benefits of the two companies.
“Meanwhile, I don’t think there’s a vep in Meta.” He said.
Later, Pichai said to some laughter from the audience, “Should we include all the commodity policies while we are there? Or should we only choose and choose a few policies we love?” He asked.
“Maybe I should try to run the company with all the policies of Meta,” he continued. “No, probably no.”
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