Google Cut More than 5,000 Jobs at Motorola in the Last Quarter Alone

Google has just presented its quarterly financial report and, tucked away at the end, as always, the company also provided a headcount. Up until very recently, that figure kept going up, as the company added more and more people to build the many things it is working on.

But buying Motorola changed that. One of the first priorities for Google, after paying the huge amount of money it did, was cutting down the fat. Motorola hasn't been profitable for years and, to change that, its new parent company has been slashing jobs left and right.

In its Q2 earnings report, the tech giant listed some 44,777 employees, 40,178 of which at Google itself and 4,599 at Motorola Mobile.

However, during the previous?quarter, Google indicated that it had 38,739 employees and Motorola 9,982. That seems to suggest that more than 5,000 employees were let go.

Some of them may have been moved inside Google, but there the headcount only grew by less than 2,000 people.

Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Cut-More-than-5-000-Jobs-at-Motorola-in-the-Last-Quarter-Alone-369607.shtml

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