January 20, 2023 - We’ll also offer a severance package starting at 16 weeks salary plus two weeks for every additional year at Google, and accelerate at least 16 weeks of GSU vesting. We’ll pay 2022 bonuses and remaining vacation time.

April 11, 2025 - The layoffs are part of a long-term strategy announced in 2022 to make the company 20% more efficient.

The following analysis covers roles at Google from layoffs performed in 2022 and 2023.

May 21, 2025 - Google’s parent company Alphabet, which so far seemed immune to layoffs in the tech industry, is preparing to lay off as many as 10,000 employees.

June 5, 2024 - Google also conducted several smaller rounds of layoffs in divisions related to recruiting, Google News, and Google Assistant later in the year. The tech giant paid staff during the 60-day minimum federal notification period, severance of at least 16 weeks salary, and two weeks for each additional year at the company. Laid-off employees were also offered accelerated restricted stock units vesting, 2022 ...

January 20, 2023 - We'll also offer a severance package starting at 16 weeks salary plus two weeks for every additional year at Google, and accelerate at least 16 weeks of GSU vesting. We'll pay 2022 bonuses and remaining vacation time.

January 20, 2023 - Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Salesforce and Twitter are among others that have announced thousands of job cuts. Technology firms have cut more than 190,000 jobs since the start of 2022, according to Layoffs...

November 24, 2022 - November tech layoffs alone have surpassed 45,000 heads, with the largest firms trimming the fat by 10,000+ heads each. But Google has largely managed to shy away from talks of downsizing…until now.

Parent company Alphabet Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG) said a total of 52 employees will lose their jobs as of next month at the gleaming local base... — read more ... Possibility of breakup triggering reorganizations and layoffs.

January 20, 2023 - The job cuts affect 6% of the Google parent's workforce, and follow thousands of layoffs at tech giants who are downsizing after a pandemic-led hiring spree left them flabby in a weak economy.

January 24, 2023 - Technology shed the most jobs of any sector last year, eliminating nearly 100,000 positions in 2022, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas, an outplacement firm. Netflix, Peloton, Twitter and other companies have also announced staff cuts ...

March 21, 2023 - While the extent of the layoffs ... VIEW, CA - JUNE 16: A signage is displayed outside Google's new Bay View campus on June 16, 2022 in Mountain ......

August 29, 2025 - September 2022: Google has reportedly notified around 50 workers, which is roughly half of those employed at the tech giant’s startup incubator Area 120, that they need to find a new internal role in the next three months if they want to stay ...

January 26, 2023 - Google’s sudden and unexpected cuts. In an email sent out at 2am Pacific time, the company terminated 6% of its workforce. “Surprised” doesn’t sum up how lots of people processed the news.

January 11, 2024 - At Google, Sundar Pichai, the chief executive, has pushed the company since July 2022 to sharpen its focus and to reduce expenses as global economic conditions deteriorated. In January 2023, Google shed 6 percent of its work force, or 12,000 people, ...

December 20, 2024 - The company’s cost-cutting push began in 2022, when Pichai announced the goal to make Google 20 per cent more efficient. The restructuring led to a historic round of layoffs in January 2023, with 12,000 employees losing their jobs.

November 3, 2023 - Google laid off up to 20 data scientists in its voice assistant division, Insider reported. It was the third round of cuts at the tech giant since September, with layoffs previously hitting the Google News and recruiting teams.

September 15, 2022 - As reported by the New York Post late last week, Google has suspended hiring new employees and allegedly told some existing employees to “shape up or ship out” if expectations are not met. Those expectations include the financial figures in Alphabet Inc., Google’s parent company, in its next earnings report due in October. Unnamed employees told the Post that they fear there will be significant layoffs.

1 week ago - Is cutting 10% of its workforce, or about 70 employees, as part of a cost-saving effort to reduce operating expenses by $8.5 million, marking its third round of layoffs since 2022.