Sundar Pichai warns Google staff more layoffs are coming

After shedding over 1,000 employees throughout a number of divisions final week and cutting 100 jobs at YouTube, Google CEO Sundar Pichai despatched a memo to its employees warning extra layoffs are anticipated this yr.

Pichai’s memo mentioned the corporate should make “robust selections” to fulfill its formidable objectives, as reported by The Verge.

The CEO mentioned this yr’s cuts received’t be on the scale of final yr’s job cuts, the place the company let go 12,000 people or 6% of its workforce.

“These position eliminations are usually not on the scale of final yr’s reductions, and won’t contact each crew. However I do know it’s very troublesome to see colleagues and groups impacted,” he mentioned in an e mail to staffers.

“Many of those modifications are already introduced, although to be upfront, some groups will proceed to make particular useful resource allocation choices all year long the place wanted, and a few roles could also 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 group.

On Wednesday, Google laid off 100 YouTube staffers as a part of reorganization.

“To greatest place us for these alternatives, all through the second half of 2023, numerous our groups made modifications to develop into extra environment friendly and work higher, and to align their sources to their largest product priorities. Some groups are persevering with to make these sorts of organizational modifications, which embrace some position eliminations globally,” a Google spokesperson mentioned in a press release in response to YouTube layoffs.