In just a few days, news is coming again about Google’s staff cuts. Google, owned by Alphabet, is laying off hundreds of employees from its advertising sales team.
Google announced the lay off on Tuesday (January 16). According to the international news agency Reuters, this is being marked as the search engine giant’s latest cut.
Earlier, the company laid off hundreds of workers last week from its digital assistant, hardware and engineering teams in a cost-cutting drive. Bloomberg reports that Google will cut hundreds of jobs in its voice assistant unit. In addition, several hundred employees of the company’s hardware team are also being eliminated. Meanwhile, most of the Augmented Reality (AR) team is being laid off.
Earlier, in January last year, Google’s parent company Alphabet announced about 12,000 layoffs, which is more than 6 percent of the company’s global workforce. It may be recalled that, as of September 2023, Alphabet had 182,381 employees worldwide.