[jsnell]

The actual report was of a reorg in a 30k person unit. That's substantially different from 30k jobs being cut, or 30k people being laid off.

[fancyfredbot]

I'm not sure this is credible. It stretches belief that Google would even have thirty thousand people in it's ad sales unit. That would be nearly 20% of alphabet employees if true. After laying that many people off there presumably wouldn't be anyone left at all in ad sales. This would seem odd for a company which makes it's money selling ads.

[fyrn_ → fancyfredbot]

The article mentions that all they have said is that they will restructure a division that happens to be 30k people. In the worst case that would be 30k people laid off, so I guess technically the headline is not a lie? Pretty close to one though.

[levidos]

Another source is mentioning 300k layoffs.

https://www.newsweek.com/mass-layoffs-happening-2024-hiring-...

[Jensson → levidos]

Do they even have 300k employees? Wikipedia says they have just 140k 2021.

[dtolnay]

The Information is cited as the source regarding the Google ad sales reorg. That would be this article from last week: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-plans-ad-sale...