Big Tech · United States
Google layoffs
We've tracked 3 rounds of Google layoffs between Jan 2023 and Aug 2026, affecting 13,052 people in total. None of these cuts were publicly blamed on AI. Headcounts are what was reported at the time, and some may have changed since.
People affected
13K
Across tracked announcements
Announcements
3
Jan 2023 → Aug 2026
AI-attributed
0%
Of affected people
Every tracked announcement
- −52
A Washington state WARN notice published August 5 listed 52 roles in Kirkland, Redmond and Seattle; Google described it as a team-level reorganisation, not a company-wide round.
Source: IBTimes
- −1,000
Google confirmed cutting a few hundred roles each in its hardware, core engineering and Assistant teams, around a thousand in total, and Sundar Pichai later told staff to expect more cuts in 2024.
Source: The Verge
- −12,000(6% of workforce)
CEO Sundar Pichai said the company had hired for a different economic reality than the one it faced; the roughly 12,000 roles cut spanned Alphabet product areas, functions, levels and regions.
Source: Company blog
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