Posted on Thursday, January 15 2009 @ 19:48 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Google
announced it will axe 100 recruiters from its workforce and close three engineering offices to fight the recession:
"Given the state of the economy, we recognized that we needed fewer people focused on hiring," Laszlo Bock, a Google vice president, wrote in a blog posting late Wednesday announcing the layoffs.
The moves follows news last week of a government filing from Google showing a significant cutback in temporary employees aimed at trimming costs. The company acknowledged in November that it would be looking to reduce contract workers while retaining full-time employees.
In a separate posting Wednesday, Google said it would close its engineering offices in Austin, Texas, Trondheim, Norway and Lulea, Sweden, a step the company said would affect 70 workers.
"Our strong desire is to keep as many of these 70 engineering employees at Google as possible," wrote Google's vice president for engineering and research, Alan Eustace.
Google also shut down a couple of its projects but more about that will follow within a couple of minutes in another newspost.
