Google cuts 200 jobs in sales and marketing
Google is cutting 200 sales and marketing jobs worldwide, primarily due to redundancies and excessive hiring resulting from overly optimistic forecasts. According to Google, jobs in Switzerland are not affected by this measure.
After years of rapid growth, the success-spoiled Internet company Google is now increasingly cutting jobs in the crisis. Google announced in its Internet blog on Thursday evening that 200 jobs are to be cut worldwide in the areas of sales and marketing. The market leader in online searches had more than 20,200 employees at the turn of the year. This was the first time that the number of employees had grown only minimally. The cutbacks now announced are the biggest in Google's history to date. Jobs in Switzerland are not affected by the measure, as Werbewoche was able to find out from Google.
In its rapid expansion, Google has created a number of duplications, wrote Omid Kordestani, the Vice President responsible for sales and other areas, on the Internet. In addition, overinvestment had been made in certain areas due to overly optimistic growth forecasts. Since the beginning of the year, the Group has already cut 100 jobs in human resources and a few more in smaller discontinued business areas.
In its rapid expansion, Google has created a number of duplications, wrote Omid Kordestani, the Vice President responsible for sales and other areas, on the Internet. In addition, overinvestment had been made in certain areas due to overly optimistic growth forecasts. Since the beginning of the year, the Group has already cut 100 jobs in human resources and a few more in smaller discontinued business areas.
