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Fortune
Christiaan Hetzner

Google boss Sundar Pichai says staff are bemoaning office ghost towns—‘not a nice experience’

Google's Sundar Pichai needs to cut costs at his loss-making cloud division. (Credit: Mateusz Wlodarczyk—NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Sundar Pichai is facing what may likely be Google’s biggest competitive challenge in the 25 years since it was founded. 

His company's dominance in ad-rich search engine queries is under acute threat by Microsoft’s AI-enabled Bing just as heavy investments in Google Cloud mean the business continues to bleed red ink in an industry where profits seem to grow on trees for other hyperscalers.

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