In the last twelve months, Google has applied a severe treatment of volume reduction to its template. According to the statements of a company manager publishedby CNBCthe company has reduced by up to 35% the number of managers and intermediate charges In the last year.
“Currently, we have 35% less managers and less direct subordinates than a year ago. So we are quickly progressing,” said Brian Welle, vice president of personnel analysis and performance, in a filtered audio to which CNBC has had access.
Less intermediaries, less bureaucracy. This Reduction in the number of charges Intermediates is linked to a company strategy to improve efficiency in a sector that has stomped the accelerator in the AI race. This reorganization seeks to accelerate decision making and eliminate internal barriers that hinder innovation.
In an internal meeting with other employees, Welle claimed that not only the number was being reduced of intermediate charges to balance it to the number of subordinates, but also the amount of equipment had also been reduced under the direct supervision of those managers that they stayed in their positions. “When we look at our population of leaders, which includes managers, directors and vice presidents, we want time to be a lower percentage of our workforce,” Welle declared in the audios of the filtration.
Smaller and flexible equipment. The 35% reduction to which Welle refers to its meeting is limited to those managers who supervise teams of less than three people. However, that reduction does not necessarily imply its dismissal.
According to the sources consulted by CNBCthese managers have went on to perform tasks as external collaborators taking advantage of their talent in new roles and promoting the Team flexibility. SUCTAL PICHAI, who was also present at the leaked meeting, reiterated the need to impose a “more efficient model as we grow so as not to solve everything with the template.”
A restructuring that has been giving for years. The transformation of Google’s internal structure began after mass layoffs of 6% of its workforce and voluntary departure programs of 2023 and 2024. Alphabet’s new financial director, Anat Ashkenazi, saidIn October 2024 that the company was going to intensify the efforts to “advance a little more” in that Reduction of its structure.
Company managers, such as Pichai and Fiona Cicconi, staff director, have remarked that “we must be more efficient as the company grows.” Pichai assuredthat only a few weeks ago that Alphabet should be more efficient with its resources: “We are going to cross a period of a lot of investment and I think we have to be frugal with our resources, and I will strive to be more efficient and productive as a company.”
The reduction does not stop at 35%. According to the audio filtered by CNBC, the executives present at that meeting assured that a total of 10 departments of the company had offered their employees out of exit in the framework of the “Voluntary output program“From the company that previously They had already offered to search, marketing, hardware and human resources teams.
Fiona Cicconi, Google Human Resources Director, said last week that this program “has really been successful” in those departments, in which between 3% and 5% of her staff had accepted compensation for leaving her position.
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