Google will cut 100 employees at YouTube, continuing layoffs after shedding over 1,000 jobs. YouTube s chief business officer, Mary Ellen Coe, notified workers, saying roles are eliminated. Layoffs primarily affect employees supporting content creators. Google has been looking to cut costs for over a year. YouTube has struggled with advertising slowdown and competition from TikTok.
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has shared an internal memo with the employees cautioning them that there will be job cuts across the company in the near future.
While Big Tech's proclaimed "Year of Efficiency" has concluded, recent workforce reductions at Google indicate that these companies are poised to continue job cuts in 2024.
Tech Layoffs: The layoffs, which were earlier reported by the blog Tubefilter, primarily affect groups of employees who offer support to YouTube s millions of content creators, two people with knowledge of the cuts said.