After shedding over 1,000 employees throughout divisions final week and reducing 100 jobs at YouTube, Google CEO Sundar Pichai despatched a memo to its employees warning extra layoffs are anticipated this 12 months.
Pichai’s memo mentioned the corporate must make “tough choices” to fulfill its bold targets, as reported by The Verge.
The CEO mentioned this 12 months’s cuts received’t be on the scale of final 12 months’s job cuts, the place the corporate let go 12,000 folks or 6% of its workforce.
“These role eliminations are not at the scale of last year’s reductions, and will not touch every team. But I know it’s very difficult to see colleagues and teams impacted,” he mentioned in an e mail to staffers.
“Many of these changes are already announced, though to be upfront, some teams will continue to make specific resource allocation decisions throughout the year where needed, and some roles may be impacted.”
Final week’s Google layoffs impacted a number of groups together with {hardware}, engineering, advertisements, and providers, with over 1,000 staffers laid off. On the time, the firm additionally confirmed to TechCrunch that Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman have been leaving the organisation.
On Wednesday, Google laid off 100 YouTube staffers as a part of reorganisation.
