{"id":155875,"date":"2023-01-20T15:25:30","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T21:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/google-cuts-12000-jobs-in-latest-round-of-big-tech-layoffs"},"modified":"2023-01-20T15:25:30","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T21:25:30","slug":"google-cuts-12000-jobs-in-latest-round-of-big-tech-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/google-cuts-12000-jobs-in-latest-round-of-big-tech-layoffs","title":{"rendered":"Google cuts 12,000 jobs in latest round of big tech layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-cuts-12000-jobs-in-latest-round-of-big-tech-layoffs2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced the news in an email to staff, saying the company needed to focus on key priorities \u2014 like artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Google is cutting approximately 12,000 jobs \u2014 the latest technology firm to initiate significant layoffs as inflation rises and global markets brace for a downturn.<\/p>\n<p>Google SEO Sundar Pichai announced the cuts in an email to staff on Friday and a blog post. The job losses constitute around 6 percent of Google\u2019s global workforce, compared to recent layoffs at Microsoft (10,000 jobs or 5 percent of the workforce), Amazon (18,000 jobs \/ 6 percent), and Meta (11,000 \/ 13 percent).<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Google needs to focus on key areas like AI, says Sundar Pichai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced the news in an email to staff, saying the company needed to focus on key priorities \u2014 like artificial intelligence. Google is cutting approximately 12,000 jobs \u2014 the latest technology firm to initiate significant layoffs as inflation rises and global markets brace for a downturn. Google SEO Sundar Pichai announced [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}