“Earlier this year, some of our teams introduced a voluntary exit programme with severance for US-based Googlers, and several more are now offering the programme to support our important work ahead,” a Google spokesperson, Courtenay Mencini, said in a statement.
“A number of teams are also asking remote employees who live near an office to return to a hybrid work schedule in order to bring folks more together in-person,” Mencini said.
The tech company started trimming its headcount in 2023, when it announced that it was laying off 12,000 staff as the economic boom that fuelled demand for online services during the COVID-19 pandemic started to fade. (AP) NPK NPK