San Francisco, Jan 16 (IANS) Google has laid off greater than 1,000 workers within the newest spherical of job cuts introduced by the corporate, media studies mentioned on Tuesday.
The corporate laid off employees in a number of departments, together with Google’s {hardware}, central engineering groups, and Google Assistant.
In an electronic mail despatched to laid-off workers, it mentioned that the choice was troublesome and regretted informing them in regards to the layoffs.
The corporate has additionally talked about that severance pay will likely be offered to eligible workers.
Google additionally allowed employees to reapply for choose alternatives in different departments, with those that fail to re-secure a place being required to go away the corporate in April, in line with media studies.
The e-mail indicated that outplacement providers can be offered to laid-off Google workers, together with state unemployment info.
In January final yr, Google lower its workforce by 12,000 individuals, or round 6 per cent of its full-time workers.
The tech big additionally made different job cuts to its recruiting and information divisions later within the yr.
Simply two weeks into the New 12 months, not less than 46 IT and tech corporations (together with startups) have laid off greater than 7,500 workers and the quantity is rising by the day, as generative AI (GenAI) threatens tens of millions of jobs.
In response to the newest information from layoff.fyi, a web site that tracks tech sector job cuts, 46 tech corporations laid off 7,528 workers (until January 14).
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