Google confirms it just laid off around a thousand employees

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• scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  When we spoke to Mencini earlier this evening about the Google hardware layoffs, she did not mention the other layoffs — but did write that “a number of our teams made changes to become more efficient and work better” and that “some teams are continuing to make these kinds of organizational changes, which include some role eliminations globally.”

  I’m getting really tired of corpo doublespeak. No Google shill, I don’t believe you are becoming more efficient, or right sizing, or whatever euphemism you think will soothe me over. You’re fucking firing people. Call it for what it is.

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• StenSaksTapir@feddit.dk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This can only mean that Google is about to axe a product that people like and instead introduce a new chat app.

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  • DarkFox@pawb.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They have. They’ve announced they’re going to cut a bunch of features from Assistant.

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    • Lells@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      @DarkFox That's good to hear, it wasn't shitty enough as it was.

      @Powderhorn @StenSaksTapir

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• Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I guess they’re rather impatient about the promised economic depression so everyone hop on the layoff train to accelerate it.

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  • melroy@kbin.melroy.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think it also had to do something with Google Assistant that get replaced by LLMs, as stated in the article.

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• onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Spyware company not doing so hot as expected, has to justify existence to investors.

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• jarfil@beehaw.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “a number of our teams made changes to become more efficient and work better” and that “some teams are continuing to make these kinds of organizational changes, which include some role eliminations globally.”

  That sounds like they’re eliminating some profile globally. I wonder which particular role they don’t need anymore, that they couldn’t reassign those people to some other role.

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  • meteorswarm@beehaw.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s mostly software engineers, and distributed across almost every team.

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• qyron@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I smell a recession forming!

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  • zaphod@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you’re so sure you should run off and short the S&P 500.

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    • qyron@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The only thing I’m sure of is death and taxes.

      I’m risking that statement because I’m seeing a good deal of events similar to what happened the last time we went through one (the world) and the big companies starting to let go people is like the canary in the mine.

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  • coffeetest@beehaw.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Google has something like 140k employees (Wikipedia 2021).

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• Lightrider@lemmynsfw.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fuckingcapitalists

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• autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  Google just confirmed to The Verge that it’s eliminated “a few hundred” roles in each of these divisions, meaning Google has confirmed layoffs of around a thousand employees on Wednesday alone, if we use a reasonable definition of “few”. We asked Google spokesperson Courtenay Mencini to say if this was the complete and total number of job cuts in this round of layoffs, but she stopped replying at that point, only confirming existing layoff reports at 9to5Google and Semafor. The New York Times reported on the engineering team layoffs too. When we spoke to Mencini earlier this evening about the Google hardware layoffs, she did not mention the other layoffs — but did write that “a number of our teams made changes to become more efficient and work better” and that “some teams are continuing to make these kinds of organizational changes, which include some role eliminations globally.” If so, though, it won’t work: The Verge is among the news outlets that takes a hard line against planted information, and we pride ourselves on finding the bigger picture. Parent firm Alphabet employed 182,381 employees as of September 30th, 2023, so roughly a thousand job cuts would only be around half a percent of the company’s total. — Saved 43% of original text.

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