Tag: Google
Contract staff of YouTube Music fired without notice
Forty-three contract works who were part of the YouTube Music team have been rendered jobless. For the last one year, these workers had been...
Google terminates employee via text in a surprising twist
A newly-hired employee of Google, experienced an abrupt loss of access to Hangouts and Google Drive, receiving notification of his termination via text from...
Google to spend €25M on AI training of European workforce
Amidst cost-cutting measures and restructuring, Google continues to innovate and invest in AI. Google has unveiled a €25 million training and skills initiative aimed...
Google’s ongoing job cuts: Over $700 million spent on employee severance...
Google's layoffs continue, with the tech giant already spending $700 million in severance charges this year after axing over 1,000 roles. This follows the...
Google lets go employees from Alphabet’s X Lab
X Lab, set up by Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is laying off members of its team. The objective is to restructure the lab such...
Google faces backlash as layoffs affect 15,000 employees
Google's employees are clearly disgruntled and upset because of its layoffs. Around 15,000 workers are affected, with 1,000 getting laid off last week. Google...
YouTube axes 100 jobs; more cuts to happen at Google
Google is endeavouring to cut costs and focus on using artificial intelligence (AI). As part of this exercise, YouTube, its video platform has laid...
More layoffs at Google; sales team affected
Google has revealed its plans to harness artificial intelligence (AI) to boost efficiency and creativity. The move, while on one hand will offer improved...
Tech giants plummet in Glassdoor’s best places to work ranking
The lustre of Silicon Valley appears to be losing its shine, reflected in the latest Glassdoor ‘Best Places to Work’ list. Once-venerated tech titans...
Tech layoffs bite again as Meta, Amazon, X and Google trim...
The once-booming tech landscape is experiencing a tectonic shift, marked by a wave of layoffs sweeping across industry titans like Amazon, Google, Meta (formerly...
Google to cut roles in several divisions
As part of its ongoing cost-cutting measures, Google has revealed plans to lay off a significant number of personnel from its digital assistant, hardware...
NLRB rules against Google in labour law violation for YouTube Music...
Google, under Alphabet, has been found to have violated US labour law for not engaging in negotiations with a union representing contract workers at...
Is Google readying to let go 30,000 from its workforce?
A restructuring exercise is on the cards at Google, which may result in about 30,000 jobs in its ad sales division being eliminated. Artificial...
Google lets go about 40 from news division
At least 40 people have been let go from Google’s news division reports CNBC. Although an official confirmation and exact numbers are yet to...
Google cuts jobs yet again, this time in its recruiting team
Google is looking to cut costs so that it can invest more on artificial intelligence. After laying of 12,000 people in January this year,...
Google’s chief diversity officer is part of board of directors, Kanarys...
Melonie D Parker, chief diversity officer, Google, has been appointed to the board of Dallas-based diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB) technology company, Kanarys...
Protest planned by techies against Google’s Project Nimbus
Project Nimbus is a deal between the Israel government and Amazon and Google, wherein the two companies offer cloud services solutions to the former’s...
Google enticing staff back to office with discounted hotel stay
Google is making a ‘summer special’ offer to its employees in the hope that they will return to office. The tech company is offering...
Non-engineering student offered Rs 50 lakhs p.a. at Google
Harshal Juikar, an MSc student at MIT-World Peace University, Pune, has bagged a package of Rs 50 lakhs per annum from Google. Despite being...
Will supercharging Google Assistant lead to job loss?
Google Assistant, the virtual assistant software application available primarily on mobile and home automation devices, is set for a makeover. The app is going...
Dunzo delays 50% salary of its employees
According to the financial results for the fiscal year 2021-22, Dunzo, a hyperlocal quick commerce company backed by Reliance Retail and Google, reported a...
Educate employees on effective use of AI instead of banning it
Recently, Samsung reportedly banned the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools after it was discovered that employees had uploaded sensitive code to the...
Google implements job cuts at Waze
Google is implementing job cuts at its Waze mapping service as part of its ongoing efforts to integrate the unit into its own map...
Google employees protest 3-day office mandate, citing lack of professionalism consideration
Bloomberg recently reported that Google employees are pushing back against the company's requirement for employees to work in the office at least three days...
Google implements three-day office attendance mandate in crackdown
Google's recent implementation of stricter attendance policies for in-office work has sparked concerns among employees. The tech giant has updated its hybrid work policy,...
Google announces layoffs of contract workers who provide support for YouTube
Google has recently made the decision to reduce its contract workforce responsible for providing support to YouTube TV and managing tasks related to YouTube's...