Google CEO Sundar Pichai confirms more layoffs are expected this year: What he said

Google has laid off thousands of employees over the past few months and the bad news is that there are likely to be more job cuts at the search giant in 2024. In this report quoted by The Verge, the head of the company has indicated major changes in an internal memo. “We have ambitious goals and we will invest in our big priorities this year. The reality is that to create the capacity for this investment we will have to make difficult choices,” the memo cited by Pichai said.

Pichai talked about the need to streamline the company’s workforce, but stayed against using the word layoffs and instead suggested the need to restructure and eliminate, which is a way of telling people that Great way to show that you are not needed at the company.

Google had a major layoff period in 2023, but Pichai was quick to point out that that scale would not be reached in 2024 and not every team would be at risk of layoffs. He also mentioned in the memo that the 2024 Google layoffs will be about “removing layers to ease execution and speed in certain areas.”

The company is one of many that are planning for life and work with AI in their systems. Google has recently announced Bard and Gemini LLM, which is expected to be a strong part of the structure, which basically obviates the need for more people and existing people can be replaced with AI, About which industry analysts have been warning since last year.

In fact, Google announced another round of layoffs from its ad sales team earlier this week. Pichai’s leaked internet memos in the report clearly show that businesses are having to reorganize their workforce and sadly, this is costing people their jobs.