It made this announcement Friday in a memo to staff.Google has announced a series of cost-cutting measures as the company continues to tighten its belt and prioritize its work in artificial intelligence.
The memo, obtained by Insider, was signed by a handful of group leaders, including Ruth Porat, the company's chief financial officer, and Prabhakar Raghavan, Google's search lead. Citing a shift to hybrid work, leaders said cafés, microkitchens, and other facilities would be"tailored to better match how and when they are being used." Some cafés will be closed on days when fewer employees use them, the memo said. Fitness classes and shuttle schedules will also be adjusted based on how they're being used.
The note added that Google continued to hire at a reduced pace, while redeploying teams to higher-priority work., which it said was the result of overhiring and a"different economic reality."This year, one of our important company OKRs is to deliver durable savings through improved velocity and efficiency. All PAs and Functions are working towards this. Googlers have asked for more detail so we're sharing more information below.
As we apply our efficient and well-tuned infrastructure and software to ML, we're continuing to discover more scalable and efficient ways to train and serve models. We set a high bar for industry-leading perks, benefits and office amenities, and will continue that into the future. However, some programs need to evolve for how Google works today. As well as helping to bring down costs, these changes will reduce food waste and be better for the environment:
Yes, AI……. Hiring the best and brightest Math minds in the world so the can invent and perfect AI to obsolete their own professional existence and that of millions of others. Gotta love unfettered Capitalism. Disgusting.
Irrational exuberance for decades