Swiggy has announced that it is firing 380 employees as part of its latest layoff process.

The company has sent an email to the impacted employees to inform them about its plan to sack hundreds of workers

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The food delivery company's CEO Sriharsha Majety has given several reasons for the layoff and apologized for the decision that Swiggy has taken to reduce headcounts.

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CEO Sriharsha Majety told employees in an internal note on Friday morning, which we have reviewed.

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Meanwhile, Google's parent company Alphabet is eliminating 12,000 jobs, chief executive Sundar Pichai wrote in a staff memo, days after Microsoft said it would lay off 10,000 workers.

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We’re implementing a very difficult decision to reduce the size of our team as a part of the restructuring exercise.

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In this process, we will be bidding goodbye to 380 talented Swiggsters,” Majety wrote.

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We reported on December 9 that Swiggy was planning to sack at least 250 employees.

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