Waymo has had two earlier rounds of workforce cuts, including in January, when its parent company Alphabet announced it was laying off around 12,000 employees.
According to a report in The San Francisco Standard, the fresh layoffs are part of an internal reorganisation process, a company spokesperson said without revealing the exact number of affected employees.
Alphabet, Google s parent company, recently laid off 12,000 workers and even 100 robots that cleaned its cafeterias at its headquarters. Waymo recently announced plans to start testing fully driverless vehicles in Los Angeles. 📲 Alphabet Layoffs: Self-Driving Unit Waymo Sacks 200 Employees in Its Second Round.