{"id":155876,"date":"2023-01-20T15:25:42","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T21:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/google-parent-alphabet-cuts-6-of-its-workforce-impacting-12000-people"},"modified":"2023-01-20T15:25:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T21:25:42","slug":"google-parent-alphabet-cuts-6-of-its-workforce-impacting-12000-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/google-parent-alphabet-cuts-6-of-its-workforce-impacting-12000-people","title":{"rendered":"Google parent Alphabet cuts 6% of its workforce, impacting 12,000 people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-parent-alphabet-cuts-6-of-its-workforce-impacting-12000-people2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alphabet, parent holding company of Google, has announced that it\u2019s cutting around 6% of its global workforce.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.google\/inside-google\/message-ceo\/january-update\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">open letter<\/a> published by Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, the narrative followed a similar trajectory to that of other companies that have downsized in recent months, noting that the company had \u201chired for a different economic reality\u201d than what it\u2019s up against today.<\/p>\n<p>Put simply, it had bolstered its workforce during the pandemic-driven digital boom times, but it\u2019s now having to reverse course as the world curtails its spending in the face of economic headwinds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet, parent holding company of Google, has announced that it\u2019s cutting around 6% of its global workforce. In an open letter published by Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, the narrative followed a similar trajectory to that of other companies that have downsized in recent months, noting that the company had \u201chired for a different [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155876","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=155876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}