After sacking employees, Google has taken another big decision as part of cost-cutting measures. The tech giant has reportedly asked cloud employees and partners to share their desks with their colleagues. Besides, the company has also asked employees to be in the office on alternate days. The latest move to optimise ‘real estate efficiency’ will come into effect from next quarter.
In an internal communique to employees, the company stated, “Most Googlers will now share a desk with one other Googler. Through the matching process, they will agree on a basic desk setup and establish norms with their desk partner and teams to ensure a positive experience in the new shared environment”.
Furthermore, the statement read that the firm expects employees to be in the office on alternate days so they’re not at the same desk on the same day, reported CNBC-18.
GOOGLE SACKS 450 EMPLOYEES IN INDIA
The development comes days after Google sacked 450 employees across various departments in India. In an email to the affected employees, Sundar Pichai, CEO, of Alphabet and Google, said that he takes “full responsibility for the decisions that led us here.” Last month, Google Parent Alphabet Inc reportedly sacked 12, 000 employees or 6 per cent of its staff globally.
META MAY SACK ANOTHER 11K EMPLOYEES
Meta (formerly Facebook) is set for another big round of layoffs — similar to the one it announced in November last year — as early as next month once the performance bonuses are paid out. According to Command-Line, a weekly newsletter by The Verge, Meta leadership “has been coy both internally and externally about what is coming”.
The report said late on Thursday that the upcoming layoffs can be “somewhere in the ballpark of the last layoff, which was about 11,000 people or 13 per cent of the company”. The current plan at the social network “is to announce more cuts in March after last year’s performance bonuses are paid out”.
