San Francisco, Jan 17 (IANS) After shedding almost 1,000 staff final week, Google is reportedly slashing “a couple of hundred” extra jobs in its promoting gross sales staff as a part of an ongoing restructuring train.
Philipp Schindler, Google’s chief enterprise officer, informed workers in a memo that the contemporary job cuts “have been the results of modifications to how Google’s gross sales staff operated”, experiences Enterprise Insider.
A Google spokesperson additionally confirmed that “a couple of hundred roles globally are being eradicated” as a part of the restructuring.
The layoffs will primarily have an effect on Google’s Giant Buyer Gross sales (LCS) unit, a staff that sells adverts to giant companies.
The Google Buyer Options staff (GCS), which sells adverts to smaller shoppers, will now develop into the “core” advert gross sales staff.
Google laid off some staff on its LCS staff in October final 12 months.
“Yearly we undergo a rigorous course of to construction our staff to offer one of the best service to our Adverts clients,” an organization spokesperson was quoted as saying.
“We map clients to the appropriate specialist groups and gross sales channels to fulfill their service wants. As a part of this, a couple of hundred roles globally are being eradicated and impacted staff will have the ability to apply for open roles or elsewhere at Google,” the spokesperson added.
Google had not too long ago laid off employees in a number of departments, together with {hardware}, central engineering groups, and Google Assistant.
n January final 12 months, Google reduce its workforce by 12,000 individuals, or round 6 per cent of its full-time staff.
The tech big additionally made different job cuts to its recruiting and information divisions later within the 12 months.
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