Google lays off employees: Canadian employees notified
TORONTO –
Google said Canadian employees affected by the recently announced job cuts are being told today whether they will be laid off.
Google Canada spokeswoman Lauren Skelly said notices are being sent to employees affected by the cuts announced last month.
Skelly did not say how many Canadians were laid off or what departments or cities they worked in, but said Canada remains an important and priority market for Google.
Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Google and parent company Alphabet, told employees in mid-January that his company would lay off 12,000 workers.
Pichai said the business was hiring for an economic reality that was different from the real economic reality, so it was necessary to cut jobs.
Days after Pichai’s announcement, Google also said it would close the Edmonton office owned by its artificial intelligence subsidiary DeepMind.