Google cuts jobs at Waze months after shedding 12,000 workers: Report

Alphabet Inc.’s Google has reduce jobs at mapping service Waze, the tech big’s newest transfer to trim its operations amid a drive for effectivity in Silicon Valley.

Some positions targeted on promoting at Waze had been eradicated after the unit started transitioning to utilizing Google’s promoting know-how, a Google spokesperson mentioned Tuesday.

“As part of this update, we’ve reduced those roles focused on Waze Ads monetization and are providing employees with mobility resources and severance options in accordance with local requirements,” the spokesperson mentioned in a press release.

Google mentioned in December that it might fold Waze into its Geo group, which incorporates well-liked merchandise reminiscent of Google Maps and Google Earth. Google declined to offer a quantity for the roles misplaced at Waze.

Google has been shifting to scale back prices amid slowing demand final yr for digital promoting, which fuels the corporate’s income. In January, Alphabet mentioned it might reduce about 12,000 jobs, greater than 6% of its international workforce. The firm in April reported first-quarter gross sales that had been increased than estimates on stronger-than-expected promoting gross sales for search and the YouTube video web site.