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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google fires 28 employees after sit-in protest over Israel cloud contract  The Verge Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google lays off employees, shifts some roles abroad amid cost cuts  Yahoo Finance Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google Is Laying Off More Employees  Business Insider Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google to Tone Down Message Board After Employees Feud Over War in Gaza  The New York Times Source link

It’s not just the headcount at Google that’s getting smaller. Like other Silicon Valley giants retrenching amid financial uncertainty, Google has cut thousands of jobs since January 2023. But the company is also accelerating changes within its lavish corporate cafeterias — a longtime lure for tech employees — that will both reduce costs and cut the company’s food waste. Source link

Job cuts continue at Google. Google parent Alphabet moonshot factory X is reportedly restructuring, laying off some staff and turning to outside investors to fund its ambitious projects. According to a report in Bloomberg News, “Alphabet Inc.’s lab for pioneering technology is laying off dozens of employees as it turns to outside investors to help fund its ventures.”The X lab is reportedly adopting a new structure that will enable its projects to more easily spin out of X as independent… Source link

Google has laid off over a thousand employees across various departments since January 10th. CEO Sundar Pichai’s message is to brace for more cuts. “We have ambitious goals and will be investing in our big priorities this year,” Pichai told all Google employees on Wednesday in an internal memo that was shared with me. “The reality is that to create the capacity for this investment, we have to make tough choices.” So far, those “tough choices” have included layoffs and… Source link

Google is laying off several hundred employees in its advertising-sales team, Business Insider has learned. The search giant plans to cut hundreds of roles from its advertising-sales unit as part of a restructuring, Philipp Schindler, Google’s chief business officer, told staff Tuesday in a memo. Schindler wrote that the cuts were the result of changes to how Google’s sales team operated. BI previously reported that Google was shifting more staff away from large-customer sales, a team that… Source link

Google is starting 2024 by cutting several hundred jobs across the company. The company confirmed the layoffs to USA TODAY Friday and that they will impact employees within Google’s hardware and central engineering teams, as well employees who work on Google Assistant, the company’s voice-activated software product. Other parts of the company were also affected. “As we’ve said, we’re responsibly investing in our company’s biggest priorities and the significant opportunities ahead,” the… Source link

Enlarge / Google is looking pretty dilapidated these days. Aurich Lawson Google’s cost-cutters are still working overtime, with more layoffs this week and cuts to Google Assistant functionality. First up, The New York Times reports Google laid off “hundreds” of workers in “several divisions” on Wednesday. Core engineering, the Google Assistant, and the hardware division all lost people. The report says that… Source link