Google parent Alphabet to cut 12,000 jobs

Google's genitor institution Alphabet volition chopped 12,000 jobs, successful the latest unit redundancies to deed the tech industry.

Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said helium took "full responsibility" for the cuts, successful an interior email.

The cuts volition impact 6% of Alphabet's workforce worldwide, successful teams including recruitment and engineering.

This comes days aft Microsoft announced 10,000 jobs would beryllium lost, and weeks aft Amazon announced 18,000 occupation cuts.

Mr Pichai thanked unit for "working truthful hard" successful their roles, adding that their "contributions person been invaluable".

He wrote: "While this modulation won't beryllium easy, we're going to enactment employees arsenic they look for their adjacent opportunity.

"Until then, delight instrumentality bully attraction of yourselves arsenic you sorb this hard news. As portion of that, if you are conscionable starting your enactment day, delight consciousness escaped to enactment from location today."

According to a caller filing with Companies House, Google has much than 5,500 unit successful the UK. But it is unclear however galore of these volition beryllium affected by the cuts.