Google Lay Off 2024. In january, ceo sundar pichai warned of. Google spent $2.1 billion on severance and other expenses as it laid off more than 12,000 employees over the course of 2023.

The layoff saga started back in 2022 when google’s ceo, sundar pichai, announced a plan to make the company 20% more efficient. The past years have seen a number of major layoffs at google.