'Not easy decision to make': Google recruiting VC tells employees over job cut in another round of layoffs

Google conducted another round of job cuts on Wednesday, informing its recruiter that several hundred of its members would be facing job cuts by day’s end, as per the report of the New York Times.

Google’s recruitment division, which previously employed over 3,000 staff, has already experienced significant reductions in its workforce this year. These layoffs signify that Google and its parent corporation, Alphabet, intend to maintain their cost-cutting measures initiated earlier in the year, despite their increased focus on expanding investments in the field of artificial intelligence.

“The volume of requests for our recruiters has gone down. The company, however, declined to reveal the exact number of people being asked to go from its recruiting workforce, the Times of India reported. Google slowed down the pace of hiring last year amid the global economic slowdown,” it said.

In a video meeting, Brian Ong, Google’s recruiting vice president reportedly told employees that the management, unfortunately, needed to make a significant reduction to the size of the recruiting organisation.

“It’s not something that was an easy decision to make, and it definitely isn’t a conversation any of us wanted to have again this year,” Ong said. “Given the base of hiring that we’ve received the next several quarters, it’s the right thing to do overall,” TOI quoted Brian as saying.

Brian further said that the employees who are impacted by the job cuts will start receiving emails from Wednesday, September 13.

“Employees hit in the latest layoffs will retain access to offices this week and online systems for longer. Employees had previously criticised the company for abruptly cutting off access to those who lost their jobs in January,” he said.