Alphabet, Parent Of Google, Lays Off Global Recruitment Team Employees

Google has laid off its employees again. (photo: dock. google)

JAKARTA - Google's parent company Alphabet announced on Wednesday September 13 that it is laying off employees from its global recruitment team as the tech giant continues to slow down in recruitment.

The company's decision to fire several hundred employees is not part of a mass layoff (PHK) and will continue to maintain most teams to hire key roles. The company will also help workers find roles within the company and elsewhere.

Alphabet was the first "Big Tech" company to fire employees this quarter, after colleagues such as Meta (Facebook), Microsoft, and Amazon made massive cuts earlier in 2023 as the weak economy ended their pandemic-triggered spike in recruitment.

California-based Alphabet cut about 12,000 jobs in January, reducing its workforce by 6%.

Layoffs in the United States more than tripled in August from July and nearly four times compared to the previous year, according to a report from the Employment firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

Economists surveyed by Reuters have predicted that new claims for the country's unemployment allowance will rise by around 8% in the week ended September 9, after dropping 13,000 to 216,000 in the previous seven days.