- Google announced an unspecified number of layoffs on Wednesday
- Some positions will be transferred abroad and others affected will be able to apply again internally
- This follows other drastic cuts from the tech giant earlier this year.
Google is laying off a “large” number of employees as other jobs move overseas, officials said Wednesday.
The unspecified number of layoffs does not apply to the entire company and affected employees will be able to apply for internal positions, a spokesperson confirmed.
A small percentage of affected positions will need to be transferred to hubs in which the company invests, including Chicago, Atlanta, India and Dublin.
The layoffs follow a series of job cuts at Google and the technology and media industry this year, heightening fears that layoffs will continue as companies grapple with economic uncertainty.
“Throughout the second half of 2023 and into 2024, a number of our teams have made changes to become more efficient and work better, removing layers and aligning their resources with their biggest product priorities,” added the spokesperson.
Google lays off unspecified number of employees as part of ‘large-scale’ restructuring of tech giant
The company’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, reportedly told employees earlier this year to expect further job cuts.
Employees across several Google teams in its real estate and finance departments were affected, according to a report from Business Insider.
The finance teams involved include Google’s treasury, business services and treasury operations, he adds.
Google CFO Ruth Porat sent an email to staff saying the restructuring included expanding growth in Bangalore, Mexico City and Dublin.
Although the extent of the reductions is unknown, one employee called them “pretty significant.”
Google laid off hundreds of workers across multiple teams in January, including its engineering, hardware and assistant teams, as the company accelerates its investments and expands its artificial intelligence offerings.
The company’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, reportedly told employees earlier this year to expect further job cuts.
In January, the company announced it was laying off more than 700 people at 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 it was cutting hundreds of positions, most of them assigned to its augmented reality hardware team responsible for Pixel, Nest and Fitbit.
The tech giant said it is also permanently closing its Mountain View daycare and laying off 73 teachers and school employees.
The layoffs began March 10 and were expected to continue through August.
News of the latest layoffs came on the same day that nine Google employees were arrested after staging sit-ins at the company’s offices in New York and California to protest the tech giant’s contract with the Israeli government.
Hundreds of people watched online via a live stream the protest as employees were taken into custody. A video posted on social media shows police leading them out of the building in handcuffs.
Google’s job cuts follow other wild layoffs in Silicon Valley, many of which came from other big AI investors such as Amazon and Discord.
Tech companies including Google, Microsoft, Meta, Salesforce and Amazon laid off between six and 13 percent of their workforces last year, CNBC reports.
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