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Sundar Pichai, boss of Google and its parent Alphabet, told employees to “be more entrepreneurial” and work with “more hunger” in a staff-wide email that warned of consolidation, several news outlets reported. Citing the “uncertain global economic outlook,” the CEO said Google would slow its hiring pace for the second half of 2022.
moderately negative