{"id":343167,"date":"2023-04-24T01:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T07:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=343167"},"modified":"2023-04-24T07:04:55","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T12:34:55","slug":"sundar-pichai-took-home-226-mn-in-2022-amid-layoffs-at-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sundar-pichai-took-home-226-mn-in-2022-amid-layoffs-at-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Sundar Pichai took home $226 mn in 2022 amid layoffs at Google"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Sundar-Pichai-took-home-226-mn-in-2022-amid-layoffs-at-Google-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-343168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/04\/Sundar-Pichai-took-home-226-mn-in-2022-amid-layoffs-at-Google-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/04\/Sundar-Pichai-took-home-226-mn-in-2022-amid-layoffs-at-Google-1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Amid job cuts at Google&#8217;s parent company Alphabet, its CEO Sundar Pichai took home a whopping compensation of nearly $226 million in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the tech giant&#8217;s filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Pichaia&#8217;s compensation included stock awards of about $218 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pichai&#8217;s salary, however, has remained steady at $2 million for the past three years, according to reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On January 20, Google CEO confirmed in a letter to employees that about 12, 000 people will be laid off globally, accounting for more than 6 per cent of the total workforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amid layoffs, tech giant Google is also creating several cost-cutting measures such as cutting down on free snacks and workout classes for its existing employees, the media reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company&#8217;s micro kitchen that provides free snacks like cereal, espresso, and seltzer water have been closed on days that typically have a significantly lower volume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company also discontinued spending on personal equipment like laptops, according to an internal memo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tech giant Google also informed its employees via an email that fewer of them will be promoted to more senior levels this year as compared to the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Google India terminated more than 400 employees and some of the impacted workers took to LinkedIn to share their plight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid job cuts at Google&#8217;s parent company Alphabet, its CEO Sundar Pichai took home a whopping compensation of nearly $226 million in 2022. According to the tech giant&#8217;s filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Pichaia&#8217;s compensation included stock awards of about $218 million. Pichai&#8217;s salary, however, has remained steady at $2 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":343168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15084,36],"tags":[16563,16562],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343170,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343167\/revisions\/343170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/343168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}