Google Laying Off Hundreds of Employees Globally

Alphabet Inc.’s Google is conducting “organizational changes” and laying off hundreds of employees working across various sectors of its business as part of the tech giant’s efforts to slash costs.

Google confirmed the global job cuts in a statement to multiple media outlets.

“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,” a Google spokesperson said in a statement. “Some teams are continuing to make these kinds of organizational changes, which include some role eliminations globally.”

Employees working in its digital assistant and hardware—including its augmented reality (AR) hardware team—and internal software tools team, as well as those on engineering teams and those working on Google’s Voice Assistant program, are among those impacted by the cuts, the company confirmed.

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