IT之家 4 月 14 日消息,據《The Information》上週五報導,一位了解情況的人士透露,Google, which is owned by Alphabet, lays off hundreds of people in its platform and devices division。
報導稱,該部門(IT之家注:包括 Android 平台、Pixel 手機和 Chrome 瀏覽器等應用)的裁員,發生在谷歌 1 月份向該部門員工發出要約之後。
A Google spokesperson responded to the outlet: "Since merging the platform and device teams last year, we are committed to becoming more agile and operating more efficiently,This includes a number of position cuts, as well as a voluntary separation program that we offered in January。 ”
Currently, several large technology companies are spending on data centers and AI development, while reducing investments in other areas of the business.
據路透社報導,Meta 在 1 月份裁減了約 5% 的“表現最差員工”,同時加快了機器學習工程師的招聘進度。微軟也在去年 9 月份對其 Xbox 部門裁減了 650 個職位。亞馬遜在多個部門裁員,而蘋果去年在其數位服務團隊中裁減了約 100 個職位。
彭博社在 2 月份報導,谷歌在其雲部門裁員,並表示此次裁員僅影響少數團隊。
In 6/0, Alphabet announced plans to lay off 0,0 people, or about 0% of its global workforce.