It is a blow to employees. As the information reports, Google discards one hundred employees in its “platforms and devices” branch, Android software manager, pixels and chrome browser products.
This decision is part of the great restructuring initiated by the Mountain View firm last year. Just a year ago, Google announced to merge its hardware and software equipment. This department had been created to be able to innovate faster and better. At the time of this merger, the unit used more than 20,000 employees.
“Become more agile and effective”
“From the combination of platform equipment and devices last year, we have focused on being more agile and operating more effectively, which included employment discounts in addition to the voluntary output program we offered in January,” explains a spokesman for the group of US media.
A new wave of layoffs that, therefore, are added to the thousands of grateful employees since 2023. Last February, Google dismissed employees of their cloud division.
Last year, Google also ruled out hundreds of people in their global advertising team, In a context of automation of a growing number of tasks Thanks to artificial intelligence (AI).
In January 2023, Alphabet, the Google parent company, fired around 12,000 people in January 2023, or 6% of its workforce. This decision had been motivated by inflation and the increase in interest rates, often synonymous with discounts from advertisers. In total, Google uses 180,000 people.
Source: BFM TV
