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Google offers ‘voluntary’ buyouts to make sure employees are ‘deeply committed’

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Google has offered “voluntary” buyouts to greater than 25,000 staffers in an effort to make sure its workforce is “deeply committed” to its goals, the corporate confirmed on Monday.

The Big Tech giant prolonged the weird offer last week to members of its platforms and devices division, which incorporates teams answerable for its Android software, Chrome browser and Google Photos, in addition to hardware just like the Pixel, Fitbit and Nest.

Google offered a “voluntary exit program that gives US-based Googlers working on this team the power to voluntarily leave the corporate with a severance package,” in response to an announcement first obtained by the tech blog 9 to five Google last Thursday.


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Google is pouring major resources into developing AI. REUTERS

“There’s tremendous momentum on this team and with a lot necessary work ahead, we wish everyone to be deeply committed to our mission and focused on constructing great products, with speed and efficiency,” the statement added.

Google employees have until Feb. 20 to use for the buyout and can discover by March 25 in the event that they were approved, in response to CNBC.

It wasn’t immediately clear how lots of the greater than 25,000 employees within the division are eligible for the buyout or what the severance package could be.

Google didn’t immediately reply to The Post’s request comment.

Shares of Google parent Alphabet were down about 1% in early trading Monday.

Like most US tech firms, Google, led by CEO Sundar Pichai, is pouring major resources into developing advanced artificial intelligence while cutting back in other areas of its business.

Alphabet CFO Anat Ashkenazi said last October that the corporate could be in search of “additional opportunities” for cost cuts.


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Google CEO Sundar Pichai (left) with Elon Musk. Getty Images

Before the buyout offer surfaced, members of the Alphabet Staff Union circulated a petition expressing concern about “instability at Google.” It has received greater than 1,400 signatures up to now.

The petition demands changes to company policy including guaranteed severance, buyout offers before layoffs and a guarantee of individual merit-based worker rankings quite than a tier-based system.

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“Ongoing rounds of layoffs make us feel insecure about our jobs,” the petition says. “The corporate is clearly in a robust financial position, making the lack of so many beneficial colleagues without explanation hurt much more.”

Google previously laid off about 12,000 employees in 2023 and a number of other thousand additional employees across multiple teams throughout last 12 months.

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Google has offered “voluntary” buyouts to greater than 25,000 staffers in an effort to make sure its workforce is “deeply committed” to its goals, the corporate confirmed on Monday.

The Big Tech giant prolonged the weird offer last week to members of its platforms and devices division, which incorporates teams answerable for its Android software, Chrome browser and Google Photos, in addition to hardware just like the Pixel, Fitbit and Nest.

Google offered a “voluntary exit program that gives US-based Googlers working on this team the power to voluntarily leave the corporate with a severance package,” in response to an announcement first obtained by the tech blog 9 to five Google last Thursday.


Google
Google is pouring major resources into developing AI. REUTERS

“There’s tremendous momentum on this team and with a lot necessary work ahead, we wish everyone to be deeply committed to our mission and focused on constructing great products, with speed and efficiency,” the statement added.

Google employees have until Feb. 20 to use for the buyout and can discover by March 25 in the event that they were approved, in response to CNBC.

It wasn’t immediately clear how lots of the greater than 25,000 employees within the division are eligible for the buyout or what the severance package could be.

Google didn’t immediately reply to The Post’s request comment.

Shares of Google parent Alphabet were down about 1% in early trading Monday.

Like most US tech firms, Google, led by CEO Sundar Pichai, is pouring major resources into developing advanced artificial intelligence while cutting back in other areas of its business.

Alphabet CFO Anat Ashkenazi said last October that the corporate could be in search of “additional opportunities” for cost cuts.


Sundar Pichai
Google CEO Sundar Pichai (left) with Elon Musk. Getty Images

Before the buyout offer surfaced, members of the Alphabet Staff Union circulated a petition expressing concern about “instability at Google.” It has received greater than 1,400 signatures up to now.

The petition demands changes to company policy including guaranteed severance, buyout offers before layoffs and a guarantee of individual merit-based worker rankings quite than a tier-based system.

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“Ongoing rounds of layoffs make us feel insecure about our jobs,” the petition says. “The corporate is clearly in a robust financial position, making the lack of so many beneficial colleagues without explanation hurt much more.”

Google previously laid off about 12,000 employees in 2023 and a number of other thousand additional employees across multiple teams throughout last 12 months.

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