Alphabet Inc.’s Google is shedding a whole bunch of workers engaged on its digital assistant, {hardware} and engineering groups, the corporate mentioned because it continues its drive to chop prices.

Among the many affected employees are these engaged on the voice-based Google Assistant and on the augmented actuality {hardware} workforce. Employees within the firm’s central engineering group had been additionally hit by the cuts, the corporate mentioned.

“All through the second half of 2023, plenty of our groups made adjustments to grow to be extra environment friendly and work higher, and to align their assets to their greatest product priorities,” a Google spokesperson mentioned in an announcement. “Some groups are persevering with to make these sorts of organizational adjustments, which embody some function eliminations globally.”

Semafor first reported the layoffs to the Google Assistant workforce, whereas 9to5Google first reported the reorganization within the {hardware} workforce. Affected workers have begun receiving the information and could have the chance to use for open positions elsewhere at Google, the corporate mentioned.

The Alphabet Employees Union, which represents a few of its workers, criticized the job cuts in an announcement posted to the social community X, previously generally known as Twitter.

Tonight, Google started one other spherical of unnecessary layoffs. Our members and teammates work exhausting every single day to construct nice merchandise for our customers, and the corporate can’t proceed to fireside our coworkers whereas making billions each quarter. We can’t cease combating till our jobs are protected!

— Alphabet Employees Union (AWU-CWA) (@AlphabetWorkers) January 11, 2024

“Our members and teammates work exhausting every single day to construct nice merchandise for our customers, and the corporate can’t proceed to fireside our coworkers whereas making billions each quarter,” the group mentioned. “We can’t cease combating till our jobs are protected!”

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