Google cuts jobs globally, relocates roles, expands hiring in India and Mexico. Here is why

Now, the tech giant is expected to prosecute replacement workers for positions successful India and Mexico, CNBC reported citing interior documents. 

The "core" squad astatine Google, which develops the "technical instauration down the company's flagship products" on with the idiosyncratic information online and its planetary IT infrastructure, was the people of the interior occupation cuts, announced a time earlier Google's first-quarter net report.

What Google officials said? 

In an email, Google Developer Ecosystem's vice president Asim Husain announced the layoffs past week and told employees this was the biggest workforce simplification from his squad this year, the documents show. 

“We mean to support our existent planetary footprint portion besides expanding successful high-growth planetary workforce locations truthful that we tin run person to our partners and developer communities," Husain wrote successful the email, CNBC reported. 

A Google spokesperson stated that the workers impacted by layoffs will beryllium capable to use for different unfastened roles astatine the company. Google has provided outplacement services and severance offerings, arsenic per requirements. 

“We’re simplifying our structures to springiness employees much accidental to enactment connected our astir innovative and important advances and our biggest institution priorities, portion reducing bureaucracy and layers," a Google spokesperson told The New York Post. 

Alphabet has been reducing its workforce since aboriginal 2023, erstwhile the institution announced its program to chopped astir 12,000 positions, oregon 6% of its workforce, owed to a diminution successful the online advertisement marketplace revenues.

The astir caller layoffs coincide with the institution seeing its fastest maturation complaint since the opening of 2022 and rising nett margins. Alphabet had past week stated that it volition beryllium paying retired a $70 cardinal repurchase and launching its archetypal dividend, with gross up 15% from the aforesaid play past year.

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Published: 02 May 2024, 06:46 AM IST