Google is offering employee buyouts in Search and other orgs

Google is starting to connection buyouts to US-based employees successful its sprawling Search organization, on with different divisions similar marketing, research, and halfway engineering, according to aggregate employees acquainted with the matter.

The buyouts, which Google is referring to arsenic a "voluntary exit program," are presently not being offered to employees successful DeepMind, Google Cloud, YouTube, oregon Google's cardinal advertisement income organization. Employees successful Google's platforms and services group, which includes Android and the Pixel enactment of devices, were offered buyouts earlier this year earlier the institution enacted layoffs. It's unclear if much layoffs volition travel this week's buyout announcement. Employees successful immoderate orgs are being offered a minimum of 14 weeks' wage with a July 1st enrollment deadline.

Other parts of Google, including YouTube, are besides requiring US employees wrong a 50-mile radius of an bureau to instrumentality to enactment astatine slightest 3 days a week by September, oregon beryllium laid disconnected with severance.

In an interior memo I obtained, Nick Fox, the caput of Google's wider "Knowledge and Information" radical that includes Search, called the buyout programme a "supportive exit way for those of you who don't consciousness a …

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