Google CFO Ruth Porat made references to the year 2008, when Google made similar cuts to respond to the financial crisis.
, representing about 6% of its workforce, to reckon with slowing sales growth following record headcount growth.the remainder of laid-off employees’ maternity and medical leaves, CNBC previously reported.
“Just as we did in 2008, we’ll be looking at data to identify other areas of spending that parents as effective as they should be, or that don’t scale to our size.” It's a shift from the range of offerings, such as Apple MacBooks, that were previously available to employees. “It also provides the best opportunity across all of our managed devices to prevent external compromise," one document about the laptop changes stated.
Google employees have also noticed some more extreme cutbacks to office supplies in recent weeks. Staplers and tape are no longer being provided to print stations companywide as “part of a cost effectiveness initiative,” according to a separate, internal facilities directive viewed by CNBC. “We set a high bar for industry-leading perks, benefits and office amenities, and we will continue that into the future," Porat's email stated. "However, some programs need to evolve for how Google works today.”
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