Google is inviting employee work on its lately - merged Platforms and Devices division to take a voluntary redundance from the company , it has emerged .
An internal memorandum , reportedly send out to Google employee ( according to9to5Google ) working on Android andPixelhardware , raises a “ voluntary exit syllabus ” for staffers working in the US .
The note , said to be from the mathematical group ’s senior vice president Rick Osterloh , promises departing employees a severance package .
Osterloh say those who opt to stay on plank need to be “ deep committed ” to the drive . It also sound like they ’ll require to up their productivity to make up for the shortfall in number . Osterloh speaks of the need for those remaining to bring with “ speed and efficiency ” .
While this see like a streamline operation designed to clip the workforce after the uniting – a common human action of unnecessary corporate greed – it does n’t come along as if Google is being picky about which stave can leave .
The bank bill articulate : “ The Platforms & Devices team is volunteer a voluntary exit course of study that supply US - based Googlers working on this team the ability to voluntarily leave alone the company with a severance package .
“ This comes after we wreak two large organisations together last year . There ’s tremendous impulse on this team and with so much important work forrader , we need everyone to be deeply pull to our mission and center on construct dandy products , with speed and efficiency . ”
The Platforms and Devices team encompasses Google ’s Android and ChromeOS operating systems , Wear OS , and Google Photos , as well as Pixel , Fitbit and Nest .
Opinion
If I were a Pixel user or Android loyalist I ’d be a little bit worried right now . Google could be losing key faculty and those who stay could be overstretched . Reports of blanket memo going out advising anyone they can leave is sure enough enough to wonder Google ’s long - term commitment to its computer hardware platform and the computer software that underpin them .
Put it this way . Do you think anyone who work on Gemini is being invite to take a voluntary exit ?
