Google, a company that brings together over 100,000 employees due to the immense size of its company and its multiple departments, has announced significant changes in the organization of its work. Following a guideline seen in 2023 to simplify departments, the company has decided that key segments such as hardware products and Android will merge into the same department.
Google has recently considered that excessive departmental diversification was problematic and led to weak synergies. For this reason, in recent times, its labor organization strategy is moving towards the consolidation of departments so that these sections encompass many more areas of work that Google performs at different levels.
Unification of Android and Hardware
As explained by Google CEO Sundar Pichai in a blog post, Google plans to continue simplifying departments to accelerate collaborations between different sections, streamline decision-making, and overall work efficiency. Thus, under this premise, the company’s CEO has announced that the departments of Android, Chrome, Search, Photos, Pixel, and other unspecified departments will merge into a single “super department” where everything will be managed in a much more centralized manner.
Part of these decisions also arise to increase the role of Artificial Intelligence in the Google ecosystem and make the implementation process as straightforward as possible in the future. Competing companies like Microsoft, in fact, are advancing rapidly in the uses that Copilot can provide across multiple applications and devices, and Google would like to achieve something similar.
The harsh layoff campaign at Google
It has been a short time since Google started carrying out massive layoffs in a move that the company justified as “restructuring”. With a massive wave of job destruction, the American company began unifying multiple departments while eliminating jobs left and right. In fact, the company did not hesitate to admit that there could still be more layoffs, so we will have to see if this new restructuring will once again result in thousands of employees being shown the door.
This, in fact, has not been an isolated event, as Microsoft also made tens of thousands of layoffs in 2023, and other technology industries, such as the video game sector, have also destroyed thousands of jobs in the few months of 2024 that we have had so far. There were no losses in practically any of the companies, but with the justification of “optimizing resources”, numerous companies have taken advantage to reduce their number of employees.
