Google CEO Sundar Pichai advised staff to anticipate extra job cuts on the Alphabet-owned firm this 12 months, The Verge reported on Wednesday, citing an inside memo.

Pichai stated within the memo that the layoffs this 12 months have been centered on eradicating layers to simplify execution and drive velocity in some areas, in keeping with the report.

The transfer provides to indicators that job cuts will proceed this 12 months, as corporations look to undertake synthetic intelligence software program and automation to lighten workloads.

“These position eliminations are usually not on the scale of final 12 months’s reductions, and won’t contact each group,” Pichai knowledgeable all staff within the memo.

“We’ve got formidable targets, and might be investing in our large priorities this 12 months.”

A Google consultant confirmed to Reuters that an e mail was despatched to all staff, however refused to reveal additional contents of the memo.

Final week, Google stated it might lay off a number of staff in its Voice Assistant items, {hardware} groups answerable for Pixel, Nest and Fitbit, promoting gross sales group, in addition to in its augmented actuality group. 

The layoffs at Google Assistant, first reported by information platform Semafor, are part of organizational adjustments which have been in place because the second half of 2023, which included layoffs on the firm’s mapping app Waze.

Just a few hundred roles are being eradicated within the firm’s Gadgets and Companies group, with the bulk within the 1P AR {hardware} group, the corporate stated, confirming a report by tech media web site 9to5Google, which first reported the reorganization.

In January 2023, Alphabet introduced plans to chop 12,000 jobs, or 6 %, of its world workforce. As of September 2023, the corporate had 1,82,381 staff globally.

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