Google employees should prepare for further job cuts this year, according to a report. “These job cuts are not on the scale of last year’s cuts and will not affect all teams,” CEO Sundar Pichai announced on Wednesday (local time) in a memo to employees of subsidiary Alphabet.
“We have ambitious goals and will invest in our key priorities this year.” The planned layoffs would be aimed at structuring the company more efficiently, the IT portal “The Verge” quoted him as saying.
Last week, Google announced it was cutting hundreds of jobs in voice assistance, ad marketing, augmented reality and the hardware teams responsible for Pixel, Nest and Fitbit.
In January 2023, Alphabet unveiled plans to cut 12,000 jobs, or six percent of the global workforce. As of September 2023, the company employed 182,381 people worldwide.
Source: Krone
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