Google lays off more employees, these three teams affected the most

Google layoffs

The tech layoff spree is showing little signs of slowing down. Weeks after laying 50-odd employees for dissent and misconduct, Google has laid off more employees. The reason, however, this time is different. According to a report by Tech Crunch, Google said that reorganisation is the primary reason behind employees being laid off. The employees that have been asked to leave are from Google’s Python, Dart, Flutter and other teams. “As we’ve said, we’re responsibly investing in our company’s biggest priorities and the significant opportunities ahead,” Google spokesperson Alex García-Kummert told Tech Crunch.

Google hasn’t confirmed the exact number of employees who have been laid off but has been done to become “more efficient”. “To best position us for these opportunities, throughout the second half of 2023 and into 2024, a number of our teams made changes to become more efficient and work better, remove layers, and align their resources to their biggest product priorities,” Garcia-Kummert told Tech Crunch. He added that the company is simplifying its structures to Gove “employees more opportunity to work on our most innovative and important advances and our biggest company priorities, while reducing bureaucracy and layers.”

The employees laid off from the teams — mainly dealing with programming languages — will be supported by giving them opportunity to find roles within the company or outside as well, the report noted. Notably, these teams haven’t been completely eliminated but a few roles have been slashed by the tech giant.

In the first four months of 2024, Google has laid off hundreds of employees. Google CEO Sundar Pichai had warned employees that 2024 will see layoffs happening in phases, unlike 2023, when 12,000 employees were asked to leave in a mass cull.

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