Alphabet layoffs

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Google is in the news again. This time it has announced yet another round of layoffs that is happening and this time it is all about those working on the voice-activated Google Assistant software and other departments. The number of lay offs is quite large and runs into hundreds. Apart from hundreds of people being laid off who were working on its voice-activated Google Assistant software, parent company Alphabet also eliminated a similar number of roles in the company's Devices and Services team. The Google layoffs at…

Image Source : PIXABAY Google Google has reportedly started to lay off employees based in China. Employees who are hitting the senior positions and those who are high-paying workers in the tech giant's office are the ones who are losing their job this time. The news surfaced in the global announcement that the company made today. ALSO READ: Dyson Purifier Hot+Cool-…

The spate of layoffs is a reaction to a hiring wave during the pandemic that got out of hand. But will it be an overreaction? The layoff announcements coming lately from the chief executive officers of big technology companies all contain variations on the theme of “we hired too many people during the pandemic,” expressed with varying degrees of contrition. At one end of the spectrum are Seattleites Andy Jassy of Amazon.com Inc. and Satya Nadella of Microsoft Corp. Amazon's layoffs were simply an outgrowth of its…

Alphabet Inc.’s Google has cut most of the jobs at Area 120, its in-house incubator for new projects, as part of a broad wave of layoffs across the company. Alphabet Inc.'s Google has cut most of the jobs at Area 120, its in-house incubator for new projects, as part of a broad wave of layoffs across the company. Three projects in the incubator will “graduate” later this year, meaning they will be folded into Google, a company spokesperson said Friday. “We have made the difficult decision to wind down the majority…

Google parent Alphabet on January 20 announced that it plans to cut about 12,000 jobs or 6% of its global workforce.The layoffs will affect jobs globally and across the entire company, chief executive officer Sundar Pichai told employees in an email on Friday, writing that he takes “full responsibility for the decisions that led us here".The layoffs are global and impact US staff immediately, Google said.Pichai said in the note, "I am confident about the huge opportunity in front of us thanks to the strength of our…

The layoffs come a day after Microsoft said it would reduce staff numbers by 10,000 in the coming months, following similar cuts by Facebook owner Meta, Amazon and Twitter as the tech sector girds for economic downturn. Google's parent company Alphabet announced Friday it will cut about 12,000 jobs globally, citing a changing economic reality as it became the latest US tech giant to enact large-scale restructuring. The layoffs come a day after Microsoft said it would reduce staff numbers by 10,000 in the coming…