Google layoffs: Hundreds axed in Android, Pixel, and Chrome units

Google layoffs: Hundreds axed in Android, Pixel, and Chrome units Last year, Google merged its Platforms and Devices teams. Earlier, in January 2023, Alphabet, Google's parent company, announced plans to lay off 12,000 employees, which is about 6 percent of its entire workforce globally. In January this year, Google employees from the U.S. and Canada expressed their concerns through an internal petition regarding ongoing job layoffs and called for improved severance terms. Many employees who added their names to the petition were particularly worried that their severance terms might differ from those received by former Google employees who were laid off in January 2023.