Layoffs and More Layoffs
This is by no means the first time that ‘Google’ and ‘job cuts’ have appeared together in the same story over the last couple of years.
During a swathe of post-pandemic job cuts made by big tech companies, Alphabet announced plans to lay off 6% of its workforce in January 2023 – a figure representing around 12,000 individuals.
That was followed a year later when two rounds of redundancies were made by Google. First, hundreds of employees were released from engineering, hardware and Google Assistant divisions. Then, shortly afterwards, around 1,000 in its AR, Pixel, Nest and Fitbit teams got news that their jobs were no more.
Alphabet and Google are, of course, not alone in their drive to reduce their workforce. The sheer amount of tech companies that have made layoffs from 2022 to 2025 is well documented, with the likes of Amazon, Apple, Meta and Microsoft all shedding thousands of staff between them over the last few years.
