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		modriano on Feb 2, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Alphabet Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year ... This bit on the second page was pretty surprising to me Number of employees: 156,500 (Q4 2021) -> 190,234 (Q4 2022) That's a pretty big change in headcount from 2021-2022.

jmathai on Feb 3, 2023 [–]

They just laid off 6% of the company. So essentially they grew by 20% in 2022 and reduced their headcount by 6% in 2023.

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