KEY POINTS
  • Sundar Pichai, Google's CEO, said in an email sent to the company's staff that the firm will lay off 12,000 employees.
  • It comes after Amazon and Microsoft laid off a combined 28,000 people.
  • Read the full memo Pichai sent out to staff.

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Google said Friday it will lay off 12,000 people from its workforce, adding to the slew of major U.S. tech companies cutting jobs amid fears of an oncoming recession.

Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google and parent company Alphabet, said in an email sent to the company's staff Friday that the firm will begin making layoffs in the U.S. immediately. In other countries, the process "will take longer due to local laws and practices," he said. CNBC reported in November that Google employees had been fearing layoffs as its counterparts made cuts and as employees saw changes to the company's performance ratings system.

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