Google slash 200 from sales and marketing jobs

Search engine giant Google is feeling the pinch and said Thursday that
it plans to cut nearly 200 marketing and sales jobs from its
international operations., representing 1 percent of its global
worldwide workforce.Around half of the losses are expected to come
from Google US with some pink slips being issued at its Californian
headquarters and will be the second time Google is reducing its
headcount this year after it cut 40 jobs from its radio advertising
business.

"We did look at a number of different options but ultimately concluded
that we had to restructure our organisations in order to improve our
effectiveness and efficiency as a business," Google senior vice
president of sales and business development Omid Kordestani said in a
message at the firm's website.

Google's rapid growth resulted in some job duplications and the
company "over-invested" in some areas, according to Kordestani."When
companies grow that quickly it's almost impossible to get everything
right and we certainly didn't," Kordestani wrote."In some areas we've
created overlapping organisations which not only duplicate effort but
also complicate the decision-making process."

The changes affect workers globally, Omid Kordestani, Google senior
vice president of global sales and business development wrote on the
official Google blog.They will be given an unspecified amount of time
to look for other positions in Google and will get severance packages
if they don't find another job with the search company.

The layoffs will help Google correct some mistakes it made during a
period when it grew rapidly, he said. As the company expanded, it
sometimes created overlapping organisations, resulting in duplicated
efforts and a more complicated decision making process.

In a post on Google's official blog, Omid Kordestani, Senior VP,
Global Sales and Business Development, wrote that Google "has grown
very quickly in a very short period of time" and that when firms the
size of Google "grow that quickly it's almost impossible to get
everything right".

He acknowledged that there has been some overlapping within the
organisation that not only duplicated effort but also complicated the
decision-making process, making the whole company less effective and
efficient which, in a deep recession, is amplified.