Google Lay-offs 200 Employees

Sunday, March 29, 2009 8:24
Posted in category Google

Economic recession extends its arm to Google also. Yes… Google, an almighty company find it difficult to pay their employees the full salary. Hence it gives pink slip to 200 Googlers. I am sure its be a bad news.

Hitherto, low players are so hard hited by this world wide crisis. Now economic crisis hits the Google also. Although the company tried to hide this fact previously, now they have accepted this news. Google assures to help the employees who will be affected to find other employment within Google as well as give severance pays to them. This is a GOOD news for them.

Omid Kordestani, Senior VP, Global Sales and Business Development announced as follows:-

So today we have informed Googlers that we plan to reduce the number of roles within our sales and marketing organizations by just under 200 globally. Making changes of this kind is never easy—and we recognize that the recession makes the timing even more difficult for the Googlers concerned. We did look at a number of different options but ultimately concluded that we had to restructure our organizations in order to improve our effectiveness and efficiency as a business. We will give each person time to try and find another position at Google, as well as outplacement support, and provide severance packages for those who leave the company. Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone affected for all they have contributed to Google.

Not so long ago, Google took some measures to cut down their expenses especially on man power (Google gave pink slip to Google engineers few weeks ago). This is the second time Google was affected by Economic crisis. Hope they will fix this issue of sending their employees home by removing the overlaps, increasing the working areas and switching the people to the ones that work well. Let us see what happened after few more weeks…

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