In another reduction to its global workforce, Google plans to lay off hundreds of workers in the Bay Area this year, with Mountain View experiencing the brunt of the job cuts.
The layoffs will impact approximately 702 employees in Mountain View, San Francisco and Sunnyvale, according to state filings that were reported by the San Francisco Chronicle. More than half of the eliminated positions are planned for Mountain View.
On Jan. 10, Google sent a letter to the city announcing its intentions to lay off 364 workers on its product, design and engineering teams. The layoffs will occur between the months of March and October, impacting employees in offices on Charleston Road, Amphitheater Parkway, Crittenden Lane and Sterling Court.
Google also plans to close down all four of its Bay Area child care centers, two of which are located in Mountain View. The closure of one of the centers at 325 Gladys Ave. will result in the layoff of 73 workers, according to the state filing.
The layoffs will have a bearing on the city’s finances, although the extent of the impact is not yet known, said Brian Babcock, a city spokesperson. “It will decrease business license tax revenue to the City, which is based on employee headcount,” he said.
The tech giant described the layoffs as part of ongoing organizational and priority changes that have been happening since last year and will continue well into 2024.
“Some teams are continuing to make these kinds of organizational changes, which include some role eliminations globally,” a Google spokesperson said in a statement to this news agency.
Google made sweeping job cuts last year, eliminating 12,000 positions in January. Since then, periodic layoffs have been occurring in the company’s tech, recruiting and news divisions.
Along with job cuts, Google's development plans in the Bay Area have also been in flux in recent months. Last November, it announced it had parted ways with its real estate developer, Lendlease, that was involved with two massive housing and office projects in Mountain View – the North Bayshore Master Plan and Middlefield Park Master Plan. Last April, reports surfaced that Google was delaying a megaproject in San Jose.
Babcock said that the city was not aware of how the layoffs might affect Google’s development plans in Mountain View.
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another community
on Jan 12, 2024 at 2:58 pm
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on Jan 12, 2024 at 2:58 pm
This daycare shutdown will affect the lease Google has with MVWSD for the Slater Elementary School campus which they have run as Daycare for years now.
Probably indicates changes due to parents working from home 2 days per week and then living in other areas where they need daycare for fewer days per week or while the parent works at home during the 2 days and then when traveling to Google HQ on 3 days.
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Old Mountain View
on Jan 13, 2024 at 10:59 am
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on Jan 13, 2024 at 10:59 am
As of now Google has dropped 35% of the Mountain View’s office staff. Time to get used to the idea they are leaving.
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another community
on Jan 16, 2024 at 6:41 pm
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on Jan 16, 2024 at 6:41 pm
This latest round of layoffs was hardly sweeping though. They are phasing out childcare for employees. That's more of a benefit reduction. It sounds like it's nearly half the layoff body count for this round. With 175,000 employees this amounts to less than 1/2 of a percent. Plus they also have contract workers, so who knows how they have been affected.
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Old Mountain View
on Jan 17, 2024 at 3:42 pm
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on Jan 17, 2024 at 3:42 pm
Yes google has 170k employees, but the fact is Mountain View lost 35% of the local employees of the google campus. And yes contractors have been let go as well in more numbers because of the recent EU ruling. Google s facing 2,8 billion euros fine. Time to address the permanent postponement of Bayshore and San Jose. I was warning the city for more than 4 years.
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Old Mountain View
on Jan 18, 2024 at 8:37 am
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on Jan 18, 2024 at 8:37 am
I just read that Google has much more staff cuts under way from CNBC. This is not done yet