Mass Layoffs at Google: Hundreds of Employees Cut from Hardware and Engineering Divisions
Google is beginning 2024 by reducing jobs in various areas of the company. The layoffs, confirmed by the company on Friday, will affect several hundred employees in Google’s hardware and central engineering teams.
It will also impact those working on Google Assistant, the company’s voice-activated software product, as well as other parts of the company.
“As we’ve said, we’re responsibly investing in our company’s biggest priorities and the significant opportunities ahead,” the company stated in a statement. “To best position us for these opportunities, throughout the second half of 2023, a number of our teams made changes to become more efficient and work better, and to align their resources to their biggest product priorities.”
The job cuts are affecting the teams that make Google’s Nest, Pixel, and Fitbit devices, including a significant number in the augmented reality team.
“Some teams are continuing to make these kinds of organizational changes, which include some role eliminations globally,” Google stated in the statement.
Additional Recent Google Layoffs
The layoffs occur around a year after Google reduced its staff by 6% by eliminating about 12,000 positions.
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, wrote in a blog post last January that, “This will mean saying goodbye to some incredibly talented people we worked hard to hire and have loved working with. I’m deeply sorry for that.”
According to Pichai, a “rigorous review” of Google’s operations led to the layoffs. The positions that were removed were “cut across Alphabet, product areas, functions, levels, and regions,” according to him.
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