Google to Lay Off 200 more
Google Inc. the search engine giant has announced a few hours ago that it is cutting down its sales and marketing team by approximately 200 employees. Google has said that they over invested in some areas in preparation for some growth trends they were expecting and hired too many people into overlapping jobs.
Earlier this year, in January, Google cut down 100 recruitment jobs, and said about 40 people would be laid off in February, when it cut short its radio advertising efforts.
“When companies grow that quickly it’s almost impossible to get everything right,” Google Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Business Development Omid Kordestani said on Thursday in an announcement posted on Google’s blog.
The Mountain View, CA-based company has nearly 21,000 employees, but it does not disclose how many employees work in the sales and marketing departments.
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Citigroup Layoffs Can Leave upto 58,000 Jobless
In an unfortunate turn of events, Citigroup revealed it’s plan to cut around 58,000 jobs to help the company adjust better to current economic crisis. These layoffs are planned in addition to 23,000 jobs already eliminated since January 2008. Overall CitiGroup laid off about 300,000 Jobs world wide since the January 2008.
Cost Cut is major concern as credit market squeezes. Citigroup is expected to save money by layoffs, sale of units and attrition as well as cutting day to day running expenditure. Vikram Pamdit, the CEO of Citigroup is notorious for taking such dramatic measures in difficult times. It will no doubt help Citigroup survive the troubled times by increasing profitability and likely to help the stock price as well. Citigroup’s stock fell into the single digits for the first time since bank was created in 1998 from the merger of Travelers Group Inc and Citicorp.
Shares of Citigroup are currently trading at $9.26 (I never saw it go below $50 since 2001)
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