People-first | Google to expand engineering workforce despite AI progress

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai told the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco that Google plans to continue expanding its engineering workforce with people, despite rapid advances in AI tech.

The tech sector has been hit by huge numbers of layoffs over the last five years, as companies that over-hired during the pandemic adjusted by trimming staff. The advent of AI has exacerbated worries about further cuts and stoked fears about the technology replacing certain job functions. Google itself has conducted rounds of layoffs in recent years to free up resources.