Google laid off around a thousand employees

Google laid off around a thousand employees

Google’s postpandemic evaluation has not only impacted the Google Hardware team overseeing Pixel, Nest, and Fitbit products; it has also made significant reductions in Google’s core engineering and Google Assistant teams. According to Google several hundred roles have been eliminated in each of these divisions, resulting in around a thousand confirmed layoffs on Wednesday alone.

These disclosed cuts, however, may not represent the entirety of the workforce reductions. Despite inquiring about the total number of job cuts in this round of layoffs, Google spokesperson Courtenay Mencini only acknowledged existing reports from 9to5Google and Semafor, ceasing further communication on the matter.

In our earlier discussion with Mencini regarding the Google hardware layoffs, she omitted details about the additional layoffs. Nevertheless, she mentioned that “a number of our teams made changes to become more efficient and work better” and noted that “some teams are continuing to make these kinds of organizational changes, which include some role eliminations globally.”

It remains uncertain if more layoffs are impending, and there is a possibility that Google is strategically disclosing the information gradually instead of delivering it all at once.

As of September 30th, 2023, Google’s parent company, Alphabet, employed 182,381 individuals. Consequently, the reported thousand job cuts would constitute approximately half a percent of the company’s total workforce. The tech industry appears to be witnessing a wave of layoffs.