New Delhi. Google has been in the headlines for a long time for layoffs and salary cuts. Employees were laid off from different Google companies from London to California, the result of which was also seen on social media, where users shared how they were fired from the company overnight without notice. removed. However, now after the retrenchment, Google CEO Sundar Pichai has come into the limelight regarding his salary. So let’s know what is the whole issue.
Received a hefty salary as a promotion
CEO Sundar Pichai himself got a salary of Rs 18.54 billion in the last year i.e. 2022 after deducting the salary of the employees. If measured in dollars, about 226 million dollars. This hefty salary has been given considering his promotion and successful product launching. It is being told that Sundar Pichai played an important role in advertisements and YouTube business. After his hard work, the company has benefited hugely from advertisements and YouTube business. The company said on the matter that Pichai got so much salary only and only because of the stock award. His salary includes 17.88 billion rupees of stock award, the rest is given by the company.
Google fired 12 thousand employees
Since the beginning of the year, the Google company has been working on retrenchment of employees. According to the report, so far the company has laid off 12,000 employees worldwide and is also cutting the salary of some employees. Fearing layoffs, several thousand people had resigned from the company themselves. Even in the London branch, many employees had left the company even before it became a victim of retrenchment. However, the company also had to be trolled on social media regarding layoffs on social media.