Google notifying Canadian employees impacted by global layoff of 12,000 workers

TORONTO –

Google says Canadian workers affected by not too long ago introduced job cuts are being advised as we speak whether or not they have been laid off.

Google Canada spokesperson Lauren Skelly says notifications are being despatched to employees impacted by the cuts introduced final month.

Skelly would not say what number of Canadians are being laid off and in what departments or cities they work, however stated Canada stays an necessary and precedence marketplace for Google.

Sundar Pichai, the chief govt of Google and dad or mum firm Alphabet, advised employees in mid-January that his firm can be shedding 12,000 staff.

Pichai stated the business had employed for a special financial actuality than the one which materialized, thus necessitating job cuts.

Days after Pichai’s announcement, Google additionally stated it will shut the Edmonton workplace owned by its synthetic intelligence subsidiary DeepMind.