Google has announced another round of layoffs, giving employees tough news during the festive season. In recent months, tech majors including Microsoft, Amazon, and Google have cut jobs across teams, adding to global uncertainty for professionals in the industry.
This time, Google laid off 100 employees from the design department of cloud services. Most of those affected were part of quantitative user experience research, platform, and service experience teams that analyse data, surveys, and research to improve user-focused product design.
Reports suggest some cloud design teams have been halved. Unlike previous rounds, most of those laid off are Americans. Google is said to have taken this step to focus resources on expanding its AI-related ambitions and future projects.
In September, Google removed 200 employees from Gemini and AI Overview units. Some of them said they lost jobs after questioning how these projects functioned. The decisions added to concerns about the company’s handling of internal voices.
This is not the first round of layoffs at Google in 2025. Early this year, the company let go of employees in the cloud department, claiming it would concentrate only on areas that directly contribute to business. The move raised many eyebrows.
Job cuts also hit global business, platforms and devices teams. Google further offered voluntary exit packages to employees in HR, hardware, ads, search, finance, marketing, and commerce departments. The repeated downsizing shows the scale of restructuring inside the company.
