In an email to Google staff members that was later made public on the Google site, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and parent company Alphabet, acknowledged the layoffs. The job layoffs would result in a 6% decrease in the company’s personnel. “This will require bidding farewell to some extraordinarily excellent individuals we worked arduously to hire and have enjoyed working with. I apologize sincerely for it, Pichai wrote. “I take full responsibility for the choices that brought us here because I am really concerned about how these changes will affect the lives of Google employees.