Google reportedly plans to lay off Waze employees following the company's early announcement to cut at least 12,000 jobs. According to an email sent by
Google is slashing its Waze workforce as the search giant merges the app with its own mapping system. The number of tech companies laying off staff this year has now exceeded 800.
Google has kept Waze largely separate since buying the mapping service in 2013, but recently it’s been combining the popular app with its own map products.