Google has allegedly abolished more than one third of its managers who oversee small teams. A recent all-hands meeting reviewed by the CNBC shows the audio that the tech is taking key steps to streamline operations and cut the bureaucracy, as the company faces increasing pressure to keep the cost in mind by investing heavily in Artificial Intelligence. Google’s move to reduce managerial roles follows the decisions of large -scale trimmed, procurement and restructuring efforts that the company has been following 2023.

At the meeting, Brian Wale, Vice President of the People’s Analytics and Performance of Google, allegedly told the employees that the company now has “35 percent less manager” with a lower direct report than last year. This deficiency has affected the managers who were overseeing less than three people. In many cases, they remain in the manager company, but returned to individual contributor roles.

Vale said that the goal of reducing managerial roles is to make the organization lean and ensure that the leadership situation remains a small proportion of the overall workforce. He stressed that the purpose of these changes is to cut internal obstacles and speed up decision making, instead of reducing the headcon.

According to the report, Google CEO Sundar Pichai also “emphasized the need to be more efficient because we are on the scale so that we do not solve everything with the headcon.” He said that Google should focus on ensuring that its structure supports innovation without layers of unnecessary management.

Large -scale trimmed and phased job cut

Google’s leadership reshuffle comes against the background of frequent job cuts in the alphabet over the last two years. The company launched its largest trimmed in January 2023, when it announced to abolish about 6 percent of its global workforce, about 12,000 roles. Since then, Google has continued to trim teams in divisions.

In 2025 alone, several major restructuring efforts have been reported. In February, the company announced a job cut within the Google Cloud. The April platform and the device unit brought cuts, including Android, Pixel and Chrome teams. By May, about 200 employees in the global trade unit were closed. Along with this, the company has slowed down hiring and urged existing employees to “do more with low”.

Google Voluntary Exit programs offered

To soften the blows and to give options to workers beyond direct trim, Google has allegedly introduced many products including searching, marketing, hardware and operation of people in many product areas. In this meeting, Fiona Sikoni, an officer of the main people, also revealed that a proposal has been taken between 3 percent to 5 percent of the employees in those groups. Many of them take some steps to take care of the family members with time or career brakes, citing shopping.

Pichai told the employees that a voluntary plan was made after the response, stating that the staff had preferred shopping for the blanket trimmed. “It gives people an agency, and I am happy to see that it is working well,” he said.