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Google layoffs continue with ‘hundreds’ from sales team

Google laid off around a thousand employee last week.

By Emma Roth, a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. In a statement to The Verge, Google spokesperson Chris Pappas confirmed that “a few hundred roles globally are being eliminated” as part of the change. That tracks with a report from my colleague Alex Heath, who wrote in The Verge ’s Command Line newsletter that last week’s layoffs wouldn’t be the end, adding that “the roughly 30,000-person ad sales group is another natural target.” Google has already made sweeping cuts across several parts of its company, affecting the employees working on Pixel, Fitbit, and Nest products as well as those on its engineering and Google Assistant teams.

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