"We want to make sure as a company, when you have fewer resources than before, you are prioritizing all the right things to be working on and your employees are really productive that they can actually have impact on the things they’re working on," Pichai said during Vox Media's Code Conference on Tuesday. "So that’s what we are spending our time on."
Sundar Pichai speaks onstage Vox Media's 2022 Code Conference — Day 1 on September 6, 2022 in Beverly Hills, Calif. Pichai emphasized that Google has been "slower" to make decisions as its headcount has swelled. "Sometimes there are areas to make progress [where] you have three people making decisions, understanding that and bringing it down to two or one improves efficiency by 20%," he added.
Oh man, sounds like they are going to chip in for water and coffee