Tiagong ....Google also start to chop headcount ler. Really Heng Ong Huat 2024

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https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/startups-tech/google-singapore-hit-layoffs-employees-brace-more

 

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Google Lays Off Employees In Move To Improve Company’s Efficiency​

Tech giant Google will reportedly lay off hundreds of employees in a move aimed at bolstering efficiency.

The layoffs will affect employees from the company’s engineering and hardware teams, as well as workers at the company’s voice assistance unit

It’s unclear if Google employees in Singapore were affected by the layoff.

Google lays off hundreds of employees​

According to CNBC, Google announced on Wednesday (10 Jan) that it will be cutting several hundred jobs as part of efforts to focus on efficiency and its “biggest product priorities.”

 

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The layoffs impacted those within the firm’s hardware and central engineering teams. Workers operating under Google Assistant and other parts of the company were also affected.

Google confirmed the move in a statement to blog 9to5Google, adding that it plans on reorganising its Pixel, Nest, and Fitbit divisions.

While the divisions previously had independent teams handling issues such as hardware engineering and software, they would now adopt a functional organisation model. For instance, only one team would be responsible for hardware engineering across the three departments.

9to5Google reported that Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman, along with other Fitbit leaders, are departing Google due to this reorganisation.

 

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Google confirms it just laid off around a thousand employees​

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Or more than a thousand? Depends on the definition of “few”.​

By Sean Hollister, a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget.
Jan 11, 2024, 2:38 PM GMT+8|78 Comments / 78 New


Turns out Google’s postpandemic reckoning didn’t just hit the Google Hardware team responsible for Pixel, Nest, and Fitbit products — it’s taken similarly sized bites out of Google’s core engineering and Google Assistant teams too. Google just confirmed to The Verge that it’s eliminated “a few hundred” roles in each of these divisions, meaning Google has confirmed layoffs of around a thousand employees on Wednesday alone, if we use a reasonable definition of “few.”
And those are only the cuts we know about. We asked Google spokesperson Courtenay Mencini to say if this was the complete and total number of job cuts in this round of layoffs, but she stopped replying at that point, only confirming existing layoff reports at 9to5Google and Semafor. The New York Times reported on the engineering team layoffs too.

 

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https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/11/24034124/google-layoffs-engineering-assistant-hardware​

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Google confirms it just laid off around a thousand employees​

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Or more than a thousand? Depends on the definition of “few”.​

By Sean Hollister, a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget.
Jan 11, 2024, 2:38 PM GMT+8|78 Comments / 78 New

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Turns out Google’s postpandemic reckoning didn’t just hit the Google Hardware team responsible for Pixel, Nest, and Fitbit products — it’s taken similarly sized bites out of Google’s core engineering and Google Assistant teams too. Google just confirmed to The Verge that it’s eliminated “a few hundred” roles in each of these divisions, meaning Google has confirmed layoffs of around a thousand employees on Wednesday alone, if we use a reasonable definition of “few.”
And those are only the cuts we know about. We asked Google spokesperson Courtenay Mencini to say if this was the complete and total number of job cuts in this round of layoffs, but she stopped replying at that point, only confirming existing layoff reports at 9to5Google and Semafor. The New York Times reported on the engineering team layoffs too.

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When we spoke to Mencini earlier this evening about the Google hardware layoffs, she did not mention the other layoffs — but did write that “a number of our teams made changes to become more efficient and work better” and that “some teams are continuing to make these kinds of organizational changes, which include some role eliminations globally.”
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So there may be more, and it’s possible that Google is attempting to spread out the bad news instead of having it hit all at once.
Google parent firm Alphabet employed 182,381 employees as of September 30th, 2023, so roughly a thousand job cuts would only be around half a percent of the company’s total. There’s a lot of tech layoffs going around.

 

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