Hundreds of Google employees were told that the company plans to lay them off just days after the search giant said it would slash at least 1,000 jobs, according to a report.
Philipp Schindler, Google’s chief business officer, circulated a memo to staffers on Tuesday announcing that “several hundred” employees from its advertising sales team would be out of a job, according to Business Insider.
Schindler reportedly told staffers the shakeup was part of a restructuring effort that will affect the unit that sells ads to large businesses.
“Going forward GCS [Google Customer Solutions] will be our core channel for scaling growth by dynamically delivering the right treatment to every customer — while LCS [Large Customer Sales] will focus on transformational growth for our largest, most sophisticated customers,” Schindler reportedly wrote in the memo.
The Post has sought comment from Google.
Last week, Google confirmed it was laying off around 1,000 people in its Pixel, Fitbit and Nest units.
News of the layoffs was communicated to each individual division — making it difficult to ascertain the exact number of people who got the axe.
Google employees were furious with CEO Sundar Pichai for not speaking publicly about the layoffs, according to The Verge.
“Thank you, our corporate overlords, for our new annual tradition,” one employee wrote on the company’s internal meme board.
Last year, Google laid off some 12,000 workers as tech companies looked to cut costs in anticipation of an economic downturn.
At the time of the layoffs, the company boasted an overall global workforce of nearly 187,000 people.
“Every year we go through a rigorous process to structure our team to provide the best service to our ads customers,” a company spokesperson told Business Insider.
“We map customers to the right specialist teams and sales channels to meet their service needs,” the representative said, adding that “a few hundred roles globally are being eliminated and impacted employees will be able to apply for open roles on the team or elsewhere at Google.”
Shares of Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc were trading lower by some 0.6% as of mid-day Tuesday.
