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Google announced it was laying off over 700 people from San Francisco, Sunnyvale and Mountain View locations. Layoffs will begin on March 10 and go till August
Google reportedly laid off several hundreds of employees across the company, affecting the central engineering and hardware teams as the company pushes for efficiency and product priorities.
The Alphabet Workers Union criticises the tech giant for axing hundreds of jobs despite vast earnings.
Alphabet Inc.'s Google is laying off hundreds of employees across several of their departments such as central engineering, Google Voice Assistant and the hardware team responsible for Pixel, Nest and Fitbit as part of its ongoing cost-cutting actions, according to media reports on Thursday. The augmented reality (AR) hardware team is the most affected, with hundreds of roles being eliminated. The move comes as Google works on an OEM-partnership model for AR hardware and is no longer working on
In the late hours of Wednesday, Google let go of hundreds of workers across a variety of departments, including engineering and services. As part of their reorganization, the knowledge and information product team—which includes voice-activated Google Assistant—and the Devices and Services PA (DSPA) team—which oversees Fitbit, Pixel, and Nest hardware—are among the departments hit hard. …