Google offers buyouts in search, advertising, research, and engineering units via voluntary exit programs with severance amid cost-cutting following 2023 layoffs of 12,000 as pandemic-driven demand waned.

• Buyouts offered to search, advertising, research, and engineering units via a voluntary exit program with severance amid cost cuts to support future work ahead.
• Voluntary exit program with severance for US-based employees in several units as part of cost-cutting to align with strategic priorities.
• 2023 layoffs of 12,000 followed the pandemic, driven by waning demand as the economic boom faded under Google's cost-cutting measures.