{"id":272336,"date":"2024-01-31T04:32:11","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T09:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=325608"},"modified":"2025-07-01T17:08:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:08:15","slug":"google-is-spending-billions-of-dollars-to-be-able-to-lay-off-its-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-is-spending-billions-of-dollars-to-be-able-to-lay-off-its-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Google is spending billions of dollars to be able to lay off its workers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Google spent $2.1 billion on severance payments when laying off over 12,000 employees throughout 2023<\/a>. And the layoff charges keep coming: in just one month of 2024 so far, the company has already spent another $700 million on 1,000 more layoffs.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Alphabet, Google’s parent company, revealed the figure along with the release of its fourth-quarter results on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the cuts, Google closed 2023 with growth in most of its main lines of business<\/a>. Google recorded revenues of $86 billion in the fourth quarter of 2023<\/strong>, representing a year-on-year increase of 13%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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