Google confirms it just laid off around a thousand employees

Or more than a thousand? Depends on the definition of “few”.

Turns out Google’s postpandemic reckoning didn’t just hit the Google Hardware team responsible for Pixel, Nest, and Fitbit products — it’s taken similarly sized bites out of Google’s core engineering and Google Assistant teams too. Google just confirmed to The Verge that it’s eliminated “a few hundred” roles in each of these divisions, meaning Google has confirmed layoffs of around a thousand employees on Wednesday alone, if we use a reasonable definition of “few.”

Read more at: https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/11/24034124/google-layoffs-engineering-assistant-hardware