Google confirms it just laid off around a thousand employees

Seems Google’s postpandemic reckoning didn’t simply hit the Google {Hardware} group liable for Pixel, Nest, and Fitbit merchandise — it’s taken equally sized bites out of Google’s core engineering and Google Assistant groups too. Google simply confirmed to The Verge that it’s eradicated “a number of hundred” roles in every of those divisions, which means Google has confirmed layoffs of round a thousand staff on Wednesday alone, if we use an inexpensive definition of “few”.

And people are solely the cuts we find out about. We requested Google spokesperson Courtenay Mencini to say if this was the whole and complete variety of job cuts on this spherical of layoffs, however she stopped replying at that time, solely confirming current layoff stories at 9to5Google and Semafor. The New York Occasions reported on the engineering group layoffs too.

Once we spoke to Mencini earlier this night in regards to the Google {hardware} layoffs, she didn’t point out the opposite layoffs — however did write that “a variety of our groups made adjustments to turn into extra environment friendly and work higher” and that “some groups are persevering with to make these sorts of organizational adjustments, which embody some function eliminations globally.”

So there could also be extra, and it’s potential that Google is making an attempt to unfold out the unhealthy information as a substitute of getting it hit all of sudden. It turned public in the course of the Epic v. Google trial that Google is among the many firms that makes an attempt to plant tales to form the information. I discover it… attention-grabbing, a minimum of, that 9to5Google and Semafor wrote scoops about Google {hardware} layoffs and Google data group layoffs respectively, at across the similar time, every with out mentioning the opposite.

Talking of larger photos, although, Google is a big firm. Guardian agency Alphabet employed 182,381 staff as of September thirtieth, 2023, so roughly a thousand job cuts would solely be round half a p.c of the corporate’s complete.

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