The company’s CEO Sundar Pichai said that it has a substantial opportunity with artificial intelligence, owing to which it had to make tough choices.
Technology company Google on Friday said it will cut about 12,000 jobs, or about 6% of its workforce.
Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai said that affected employees in the United States have already been notified.
“This will mean saying goodbye to some incredibly talented people we worked hard to hire and have loved working with,” Pichai said. “The fact that these changes will impact the lives of Googlers weighs heavily on me, and I take full responsibility for the decisions that led us here.”
With Friday’s announcement, Google became one of the several other big technology companies that have also slashed their workforce in the last few months amid fears of a global recession.
