As part of the restructuring, there are more layoffs at Google, reports the online magazine “Heise”. The company's Python team is also affected. He will be replaced by a team of “cheaper workers” in Munich.

Google wants to reduce costs

The layoffs are part of Google's planned restructuring to allow employees to apply for other open positions within the company. According to Heise, Google plans to reduce costs by hiring less expensive workers outside the United States.

Former members of Google's Python team reacted with disappointment to the layoff on Mastodon and Reddit. Google confirmed the measures to “TechCrunch” without giving more details. Therefore, it is unclear how many employees will be affected by the layoffs.

The Python team needs to bring in “cheaper labor.”

The laid-off Python team, which consisted of fewer than 10 employees, according to Hindustan Times, had managed much of Google's Python ecosystem and was largely responsible for updating thousands of third-party packages. Thomas Wouters, a board member of the Python Foundation, criticized the layoffs and said it was not easy to train his successors.

Google plans to focus more on places like Bengaluru, Mexico City and Dublin. This emerges from an email from CFO Ruth Porat to company employees. It recently emerged that Google is increasingly relying on artificial intelligence and is therefore restructuring.

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The company has invested billions. alphabet managed to increase its sales by 15 percent compared to the previous year and generated 80.5 billion dollars (the equivalent of around 75.17 billion euros), according to the Handelsblatt newspaper. Google boss Sundar Pichai explains it with investments in artificial intelligence. He says: “We are prepared for the next wave of innovation in AI and the opportunities that lie ahead. Hundreds of employees, mainly from the hardware sector, had to leave the company in January.” Now the Python team is also affected.