{"id":1047641,"date":"2026-11-06T10:32:27","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T05:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1047641"},"modified":"2026-11-06T10:32:27","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T05:02:27","slug":"google-has-expanded-voluntary-exit-packages-to-staff-in-five-countries-as-it-reins-in-costs-during-its-ai-spending-boom-while-its-key-google-cloud-and-deepmind-operations-appear-excluded-from-the-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/06\/google-has-expanded-voluntary-exit-packages-to-staff-in-five-countries-as-it-reins-in-costs-during-its-ai-spending-boom-while-its-key-google-cloud-and-deepmind-operations-appear-excluded-from-the-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Google has expanded voluntary exit packages to staff in five countries as it reins in costs during its AI spending boom, while its key Google Cloud and DeepMind operations appear excluded from the offers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google continues to expand its voluntary exit packages to staff, reports Reuters. The buyout offers began in June this year to some employees in Canada, France, Germany, Japan \u200band Switzerland \u201cas it looks to rein in rising costs amid heavy spending on artificial intelligence\u201d. However, the new agency could not determine how many employees have accepted the latest round of offers. \u201cIn 2025, some of our teams introduced a voluntary \u2060exit program with severance,&#8221; a Google spokesperson said in a statement quoted by Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis past summer, in June, we expanded \u200bthis program globally in a few countries to support our important work ahead,\u201d the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google continues to expand its voluntary exit packages to staff, reports Reuters. The buyout offers began in June this year to some employees in Canada, France, Germany, Japan \u200band Switzerland \u201cas it looks to rein in rising costs amid heavy spending on artificial intelligence\u201d. However, the new agency could not determine how many employees have accepted the latest round of offers. \u201cIn 2025, some of our teams introduced a voluntary \u2060exit program with severance,&#8221; a Google spokesperson said in a statement quoted by Reuters. \u201cThis past summer, in June, we expanded \u200bthis program globally in a few countries to support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1047641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047643,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047641\/revisions\/1047643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}