Tech giant Google has laid off hundreds of employees in key departments. SOPA Images / Contributor / Getty Images
Google cut hundreds of jobs on Wednesday.
The layoffs affect the tech giant’s key engineering and hardware teams.
Read the email some employees received informing them they had been let go here.
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Google laid off hundreds of employees on Wednesday night. The search engine giant cut jobs in its central engineering department and in teams working on its Pixel phone, Fitbit devices, smart home product Nest and Google Assistant, such as the „New York Times“ reported. The layoffs were first reported by “9to5Google” and “Traffic lights„.
A Google spokesperson confirmed the layoffs. In an email to Business Insider US, he wrote: “We are investing responsibly in our company’s biggest priorities and the significant opportunities that lie ahead.”
“To best position ourselves for these opportunities, some of our teams made changes in the second half of 2023 to become more efficient and perform better, aligning their resources with their top product priorities. Some teams are continuing these types of organizational changes, which include eliminating some roles at a global level. We continue to support all affected employees as they seek new roles here at Google and beyond.”
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Two Google employees confirmed the text of a termination email originally shared on the anonymous job posting website Blind, although it has since been removed.
Google is one of several major tech companies that have made a series of layoffs in the past year. Most recently, Amazon announced on Wednesday that it would cut “several hundred” jobs.
Read the full email sent to some employees here:
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