Google parentAlphabethas become the latest U.S. tech giant to make deep staff cuts.
This represents about 6% of its global workforce.
In an email to staff sent today, Pichai took responsibilities for the cuts.
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Over the past two years weve seen periods of dramatic growth.
To fully capture it, well need to make tough choices.
The roles were eliminating reflect the outcome of that review.
They cut across Alphabet, product areas, functions, levels and regions.
Outside the U.S., support will be in line with local practices.
A town hall will be held on Monday for staff to ask further questions.
U.S. tech giants have been facing a reckoning as the global economy heads towards something of a meltdown.
Combined with the ongoingeconomic slowdownand recession fears, every large company has been compelled to take drastic action.
As an almost 25-year-old company, were bound to go through difficult economic cycles, wrote Pichai.
