After shedding over 1,000 staff throughout a number of divisions final week and slicing 100 jobs at YouTube, Google CEO Sundar Pichai despatched a memo to its employees warning extra layoffs are anticipated this yr.
Pichai’s memo mentioned the corporate should make “robust selections” to fulfill its formidable targets, as reported by The Verge.
The CEO mentioned this yr’s cuts received’t be on the scale of final yr’s job cuts, the place the corporate let go 12,000 folks or 6% of its workforce.
“These position eliminations should not on the scale of final yr’s reductions, and won’t contact each crew. However I do know it’s very troublesome to see colleagues and groups impacted,” he mentioned in an electronic mail to staffers.
“Many of those adjustments are already introduced, although to be upfront, some groups will proceed to make particular useful resource allocation choices all year long the place wanted, and a few roles could also be impacted.”
Final week’s Google layoffs impacted a number of groups together with {hardware}, engineering, advertisements, and providers, with over 1,000 staffers laid off. On the time, the firm additionally confirmed to TechCrunch that Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman had been leaving the group.
On Wednesday, Google laid off 100 YouTube staffers as a part of reorganization.
“To finest place us for these alternatives, all through the second half of 2023, quite a few our groups made adjustments to develop into extra environment friendly and work higher, and to align their assets to their largest product priorities. Some groups are persevering with to make these sorts of organizational adjustments, which embody some position eliminations globally,” a Google spokesperson mentioned in a press release in response to YouTube layoffs.
