- Google lays off 10% of managers, directors, VPs
- More than 1,300 Google employees will lose their jobs in 2024
- The company faces threats from competitors and regulators
Google The company is reportedly cutting 10% of its manager, director and vice president positions as it continues to increase efficiency and improve the company’s operating costs.
This message (from business insider) comes at the end of a troubled year for the company — hundreds of jobs have been lost at the company as part of multiple rounds of layoffs, including 1,000 in early 2024, although the layoffs are well down from the more than 13,000 in 2023. Another 300 in May (via Layoffs. For reference only).
The latest changes, announced by Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai at a recent all-hands meeting, are aimed at simplifying the organization’s structure.
Google is firing its own managers
Employees familiar with the matter said some management positions will be eliminated entirely, while others will be converted to non-management positions. This commonly used technique aims to reduce the layers of a company’s organizational structure in order to increase efficiency.
The reality is that this is just another move as part of the company’s overall goal to become more efficient. Pichai set a goal of improving efficiency by 20% in September 2022 – and his next round of major layoffs, affecting 12,000 people at once, will likely address a lot of that.
However, that may not be enough for Google, which is under threat in multiple areas. Its artificial intelligence efforts have been thwarted Open artificial intelligenceachieved immeasurable success Chat GPTthe tool is now threatening Google.com’s market dominance. Separately, Google’s search dominance has come under recent criticism, and other areas of the business have faced potential regulatory action.