Google’s Alphabet slashes 12000 jobs from its global recruiting team

Several reports were floating that Google parent Alphabet has been slashing its employees for the past few months amid slow hiring. However, now it is confirmed that the tech giant is laying off its staff from its global recruiting team as it continues to slow hiring, said the company.

Google parent Alphabet lays off hundreds of employees

However, this decision to let go hundreds of employees is not part of a wide-scale lay-off and will retain a significant majority of the team for hiring critical roles. It will also help the workers search for roles within the tech giant and elsewhere.

Reportedly, Google’s Alphabet is the first ‘Big Tech’ company to lay off employees this quarter, after peers like Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon downsized earlier in 2023 as a weak economy put an end to their pandemic-led hiring sprees.

Almost 12,000 jobs slashed 

According to the reports, California-based Alphabet has slashed nearly 12,000 jobs in January, reducing its workforce by 6 per cent.

In just US, the lay-offs have soared more than threefold in August from July and nearly fourfold compared with a year ago, according to a report by employment firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

Taking notes from the lay-offs, the economics has forecast that new claims for state unemployment benefits would rise by about 8 per cent in the week ended September 09, after having fallen 13,000 to 216,000 in the prior seven-day period.