- Google announced an unspecified number of layoffs on Wednesday
- Some roles will be moved abroad and others affected will be able to reapply internally
- It follows other savage cuts made by the tech giant earlier this year.
Google is laying off a “large” number of employees as other jobs will be sent overseas, officials announced Wednesday.
The unspecified number of layoffs does not affect the entire company and affected employees will be able to apply for internal positions, a spokesperson confirmed.
A small percentage of the affected positions will need to be moved to centers the company is investing in, including Chicago, Atlanta, India and Dublin.
The layoffs follow a series of job cuts at Google and in the tech and media industry this year, adding to fears that layoffs could continue as companies grapple with economic uncertainty.
“Throughout the second half of 2023 and into 2024, several of our teams made changes to be more efficient and work better, remove layers and align their resources with their highest product priorities,” the spokesperson added.
Google will lay off an unknown number of employees as part of a “large-scale” restructuring of the tech giant
The company’s CEO Sundar Pichai reportedly told employees earlier this year to expect more job cuts.
Employees across several Google teams in its real estate and finance departments have been affected, according to a Business Insider report.
Affected financial teams include treasury, merchant services and Google’s cash revenue operations, he added.
Google CFO Ruth Porat emailed staff saying the restructuring includes expanding growth to Bengaluru, Mexico City and Dublin.
Although the full extent of the cuts is unknown, one employee described them as “pretty big.”
Google laid off hundreds of workers across multiple teams in January, including its engineering, hardware and assistant teams, as the company ramps up investment and develops its artificial intelligence offerings.
The company’s CEO Sundar Pichai reportedly told employees earlier this year to expect more job cuts.
In January, the company announced it was laying off more than 700 people from its San Francisco, Sunnyvale and Mountain View locations in four different notices filed.
Most of those affected worked on its augmented reality hardware team responsible for Pixel, Nest and Fitbit.
On January 11, Google announced that it would be eliminating hundreds of roles, with most of them affecting its augmented reality hardware team responsible for Pixel, Nest, and Fitbit.
The tech giant said it would also permanently close its Mountain View daycare and lay off 73 teachers and school workers.
The layoffs began on March 10 and were scheduled to continue through August.
News of the latest layoffs came the same day it separately emerged that nine Google workers were arrested after staging sit-ins at the company’s offices in New York City and California to protest the tech giant’s contract. with the Israeli government.
Hundreds of people watched online via livestream from the protest as the employees were detained. Video posted on social media shows police leading them out of the building in handcuffs.
Google’s cuts come after other savage layoffs in Silicon Valley, many of which came from other big AI investors like Amazon and Discord.
Tech companies such as Google, Microsoft, Meta, Salesforce and Amazon laid off between six and 13 percent of their workforce last year. CNBC reports.