Posted on Friday, March 27 2009 @ 19:39 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Search giant Google is feeling the pain of the global recession, the company
announced on its blog that it will lay off 200 people within their sales and marketing units. Google says they had over-invested in some areas, as they had overestimated growth.
So today we have informed Googlers that we plan to reduce the number of roles within our sales and marketing organizations by just under 200 globally. Making changes of this kind is never easy—and we recognize that the recession makes the timing even more difficult for the Googlers concerned. We did look at a number of different options but ultimately concluded that we had to restructure our organizations in order to improve our effectiveness and efficiency as a business. We will give each person time to try and find another position at Google, as well as outplacement support, and provide severance packages for those who leave the company. Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone affected for all they have contributed to Google.
