Google lays off hundreds of employees and moves positions to India and Mexico

Google fires hundreds of employees and, again, will replace them with cheaper ones

Google has made a drastic decision that affects its workforce. The information obtained by the CNBC indicate that Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has laid off 200 employees from its Core unit. But that is not all: there is also a transfer of positions to India, Mexico and Brazil.

Google shares seem to be taking shape, these layoffs are not the only ones that have been announced in recent weeks. In fact, just a few days ago it was learned that the company laid off an entire team of Python engineers with the idea of ​​replacing this workforce with a much cheaper one.

Now it is the turn of the company’s central unit, which is in charge of developing the basis of the technology used in the company’s main products and, in addition, of protecting the online security of users. Although the movement is drastic, the layoffs are part of Google’s restructuring plans.

Google fires hundreds of employees and, again, will replace them with cheaper ones

Of the 200 jobs that have been eliminated, at least 50 positions correspond to the engineering department of the Sunnyvale unit in California. Work centers have begun to look for replacement in other markets, with Mexico, India and Brazil being the countries where this workforce is sought.

The company continues to have a central staff in the United Statesbut everything indicates that if the restructuring plans work, it is most likely that these layoffs are just the beginning of a change within Google’s organizational chart and a commitment to workforce on other continents will be made.

The vice president of Google Developer Ecosystem himself, Asim Husainwas the one who announced the layoffs via email. In this document to which the American television channel has had access you can read the following:

We intend to maintain our current global presence while expanding into high global workforce growth locations so we can operate closer to our partners and developer communities.

These types of movements are part of the daily life of a company, users will not notice any difference in the services they use on a daily basis. Now we just have to see how this action affects the rest of the companies.

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