{"id":938160,"date":"2025-06-12T11:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T06:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=938160"},"modified":"2025-06-12T11:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T06:04:11","slug":"google-offers-buyout-why-is-the-tech-giant-paying-employees-to-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/12\/google-offers-buyout-why-is-the-tech-giant-paying-employees-to-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Google offers buyout: Why is the tech giant paying employees to leave?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google on Tuesday is trimming its workforce by offering buyouts to employees across several divisions. The layoffs target teams across the company\u2019s knowledge and information (K&amp;I) unit, central engineering units as well as marketing, research and communications teams, reported CNBC.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cvoluntary exit program\u201d applies to the US-based employees. Some teams are also making it mandatory for remote employees who live within 50 miles of the company to come back to the office, according to the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google on Tuesday is trimming its workforce by offering buyouts to employees across several divisions. The layoffs target teams across the company\u2019s knowledge and information (K&amp;I) unit, central engineering units as well as marketing, research and communications teams, reported CNBC. The \u201cvoluntary exit program\u201d applies to the US-based employees. Some teams are also making it mandatory for remote employees who live within 50 miles of the company to come back to the office, according to the report.<\/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":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-938160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938160","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=938160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}