By Jake Perez, Editor at LinkedIn News -- Google has informed its workforce that there will be fewer promotions this year as hiring slows, reports CNBC, citing an internal email. The warning comes as the tech giant implements new performance reviews. It also announced in January that it was cutting 6% of its workforce, or 12,000 jobs. Meanwhile, parent Alphabet's CEO Sundar Pichai has doubled down on implementing a desk-sharing policy in Google's cloud unit, telling workers in a companywide meeting that offices have been compared to a "ghost town," and that they should consider being "good stewards" of the company's real estate investments.