Google confirms it simply laid off round a thousand workers

Seems Google’s postpandemic reckoning didn’t simply hit the Google {Hardware} workforce this night — it’s taken equally sized bites out of Google Assistant and Google’s core engineering 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 workers on Wednesday alone, if we use an inexpensive definition of “few”.

And people are solely the cuts we learn 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 present layoff reviews at 9to5Google and Semafor. The New York Instances reported on the engineering workforce layoffs too.

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

So there could also be extra, and it’s potential that Google is trying to unfold out the unhealthy information as an alternative of getting it hit . 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… fascinating, at the very least, that 9to5Google and Semafor wrote scoops about Google {hardware} layoffs and Google data workforce layoffs respectively, at across the identical time, every with out mentioning the opposite.

Talking of larger photos, although, Google is a large firm. Mum or dad agency Alphabet employed 182,381 workers as of September thirtieth, 2023, so roughly a thousand job cuts would solely be round half a % of the corporate’s complete.

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