It is understandable that global companies are laying off workers in the current economic climate. However, it is difficult to understand this in the context of how many employees someancThese companies also make money. An example for all is Sundar Pichai, who is the CEO of Alphabet, i.e. everything that belongs to the Google brand, including the search engine itself. Alphabet announced at the beginning of this year that it would lay off 12 employees.ancIf each of these employeesancHe earned almost 500 CZK per year, which would cover the salary of a single employee.ance, who is of course the CEO of Alphabet. He earned $226 million last year, or roughly 5 billion crowns. The vast majority of the profit is made up of shares, but in the case of Alphabet, they are more likely to appreciate than lose value.
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In addition, this is not a salary for some exceptional year, when Google was doing so well that the CEO came up with some decent bonuses. In 2019, Pichai earned exactly 281 million dollars, i.e. one billion crowns more than this year. The shares are given to the CEO every three years and they make up the largest part of his salary. The monthly salary is only 42,5 million crowns, so compared to the shares, it is only an appropriate word. Of course, in addition to his salary, the CEO also has everything he can think of, from a private plane, helicopter, security, food, to hotels, all of which are paid for by Alphabet, so the CEO doesn't really have much to spend on in his life, at least for ordinary things concerns things.
... and since each of those 12k employeesancIf a person earns more than 500k CZK per year, he will save G on his CEO's salary :-), in addition, today there is no need for so many people, for example, for the development of online meeting applications and other things related to the mass movement of people to their home countries.ancIt is a reminder of the times of anti-Covid measures.