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[๐Ÿ”ฅ Hot off the Feed] Google Buyouts: Tech Giant Trims Again in 2025

Even Google Search isnโ€™t safe in this round of corporate slim-down.

๊ตฌ๊ธ€, ๋‹ค์‹œ ์นผ ๋นผ๋“ค๋‹ค โ€” ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ยท๊ด‘๊ณ ํŒ€ ํฌํ•จ ํฌ๋งํ‡ด์ง ์œ ๋„
์ด๋ฒˆ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์กฐ์ • ์นผ๋‚ ์€ ๊ตฌ๊ธ€ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ํŒ€๊นŒ์ง€ ๋‹ฟ์•˜๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ˜Ž ์ง€๊ธˆ ์ฃผ์ œ๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๊ณผ ์–˜๊ธฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค๋ฉด?

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๐Ÿ“Œ Context is King

Google, on June 10, 2025, offered buyouts to employees across several of its divisions, including knowledge & information (K&I), central engineering, marketing, research, and communications.
๊ตฌ๊ธ€์ด 2025๋…„ 6์›” 10์ผ, ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰๊ณผ ๊ด‘๊ณ ๋ฅผ ๋‹ด๋‹นํ•˜๋Š” K&I(์ง€์‹ยท์ •๋ณด) ๋ถ€์„œ๋ฅผ ํฌํ•จํ•ด ์—”์ง€๋‹ˆ์–ด๋ง, ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…, ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜, ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆ์ผ€์ด์…˜ ๋“ฑ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ถ€์„œ์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ์ง์›๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ํฌ๋งํ‡ด์ง์„ ์ œ์•ˆํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The move is part of ongoing headcount reduction that began with 12,000 layoffs in 2023. Some remote workers were also told to return to the office if they live within 50 miles.
์ด๋ฒˆ ์กฐ์น˜๋Š” 2023๋…„ 1๋งŒ 2์ฒœ ๋ช… ๊ฐ์› ์ดํ›„ ์ด์–ด์ง„ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์กฐ์ •์˜ ์—ฐ์žฅ์„ ์ด๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ์žฌํƒ๊ทผ๋ฌด ์ค‘์ธ ์ง์› ์ค‘ ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์‹ค ๋ฐ˜๊ฒฝ 50๋งˆ์ผ ์ด๋‚ด ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ์ž๋Š” ์ถœ๊ทผํ•˜๋ผ๋Š” ์ง€์นจ๋„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋‚ด๋ ค์กŒ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿงฉ IYKYK(If you know, you know)

Voluntary Separation Program (์ž๋ฐœ์  ํ‡ด์ง ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ)
โ†’ Company-initiated buyouts that offer incentives for employees to resign.
โ†’ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์ง์›์—๊ฒŒ ์ž๋ฐœ์  ํ‡ด์ง์„ ์œ ๋„ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๊ธˆ์ „์  ์ธ์„ผํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ์ œ๋„.

Workplace Consolidation (๊ทผ๋ฌด์ง€ ํ†ตํ•ฉ)
โ†’ Policies requiring remote employees to return to physical offices to reduce real estate costs.
โ†’ ์žฌํƒ๊ทผ๋ฌด ์ธ๋ ฅ์„ ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์‹ค๋กœ ๋ณต๊ท€์‹œ์ผœ ๋ถ€๋™์‚ฐ ๋น„์šฉ์„ ์ค„์ด๋ ค๋Š” ์ •์ฑ….

K&I Division (์ง€์‹ยท์ •๋ณด ๋ถ€๋ฌธ)
โ†’ Internal name for Google's core Search, Ads, and Commerce operations.
โ†’ ๊ตฌ๊ธ€์˜ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰, ๊ด‘๊ณ , ์ปค๋จธ์Šค๋ฅผ ์ด๊ด„ํ•˜๋Š” ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์‚ฌ์—… ๋ถ€์„œ์˜ ๋‚ด๋ถ€ ๋ช…์นญ.

Quiet Layoffs (์กฐ์šฉํ•œ ํ•ด๊ณ )
โ†’ Use of buyouts, role eliminations, or reassignments to shrink teams without public layoffs.
โ†’ ๊ณต๊ฐœ์ ์ธ ํ•ด๊ณ  ์—†์ด ํŒ€ ๊ทœ๋ชจ๋ฅผ ์ค„์ด๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ํ‡ด์ง ์œ ๋„, ์—ญํ•  ์‚ญ์ œ, ์ „ํ™˜ ๋ฐฐ์น˜ ๋“ฑ์˜ ๋ฐฉ์‹.

๐Ÿง  In Focus

This wave of buyouts signals a shift in how Google approaches operational efficiency. With AI and automation on the rise, even foundational divisions like Search and Ads aren't exempt from restructuring.

์ด๋ฒˆ ํฌ๋งํ‡ด์ง ์œ ๋„๋Š” ๊ตฌ๊ธ€์ด ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์— ๋ณ€ํ™”๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Œ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค€๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ๊ณผ ์ž๋™ํ™”๊ฐ€ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ๋– ์˜ค๋ฅด๋ฉด์„œ, ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰๊ณผ ๊ด‘๊ณ * ๊ฐ™์€ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๋ถ€์„œ์กฐ์ฐจ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์กฐ์ •์—์„œ ์˜ˆ์™ธ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๊ฒŒ ๋œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

*[Note] Last year, Google's parent company Alphabet reported annual revenue of $350 billion, with advertising accounting for approximately 75% ($264.6 billion) of that total.

*[Note] ์ง€๋‚œํ•ด ๊ตฌ๊ธ€ ๋ชจํšŒ์‚ฌ ์•ŒํŒŒ๋ฒณ์˜ ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ๋งค์ถœ์€ 3500์–ต๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ(์•ฝ 499์กฐ์›)์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ด ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ ์ „์ฒด ๊ด‘๊ณ  ์‚ฌ์—… ๋งค์ถœ ๋น„์ค‘์€ ์•ฝ 75%(2646์–ต๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ)

For workers, the mandate to return to the office adds pressure amid job uncertainty. Silicon Valleyโ€™s once untouchable campuses are now symbols of shrinking tech privilege.

์ง์›๋“ค์—๊ฒ ์ถœ๊ทผ ๋ช…๋ น์ด ๋ถˆ์•ˆ์ •ํ•œ ๊ณ ์šฉ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ ์†์—์„œ ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ถ€๋‹ด์œผ๋กœ ์ž‘์šฉํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์—” ํŠน๊ถŒ์˜ ์ƒ์ง•์ด์—ˆ๋˜ ์‹ค๋ฆฌ์ฝ˜๋ฐธ๋ฆฌ ์บ ํผ์Šค๊ฐ€ ์ด์ œ๋Š” ๊ฐ์ถ•๊ณผ ๊ธด์žฅ์˜ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์ด ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ—ฃ How They Talk About It

๐Ÿ“Œ Strategic Streamlining (์ „๋žต์  ์ •๋น„)
"This isnโ€™t downsizing, itโ€™s strategic streamlining."
"์ด๊ฑด ๊ตฌ์กฐ์กฐ์ •์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ์ „๋žต์  ์ •๋น„๋‹ค."

๐Ÿ“Œ Unspoken Pressure (์•”๋ฌต์  ์••๋ฐ•)
"When Google 'offers' a buyout, itโ€™s rarely just an offer."
"๊ตฌ๊ธ€์ด ํฌ๋งํ‡ด์ง์„ '์ œ์•ˆ'ํ•  ๋•Œ, ๊ทธ๊ฑด ๋ง ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ œ์•ˆ์ด ์•„๋‹Œ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ๋‹ค."

๐Ÿ“Œ Culture Shift (๋ฌธํ™”์  ์ „ํ™˜)
"This marks the end of the 'free campus' culture in Big Tech."
"์ด์ œ ๋น…ํ…Œํฌ์˜ '์ž์œ ๋กœ์šด ์บ ํผ์Šค' ๋ฌธํ™”๋Š” ์ข…์–ธ์„ ๋งž์ดํ•œ ๋“ฏํ•˜๋‹ค."

๐Ÿงญ Discourse Watch

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ U.S.
Media noted the unusual inclusion of Google's K&I division in this round of cutsโ€”signaling a shift in product priorities.
์–ธ๋ก ๋“ค์€ ์ด๋ฒˆ ํฌ๋งํ‡ด์ง ๋Œ€์ƒ์— K&I ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์ด ํฌํ•จ๋œ ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋น„์ค‘ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๋ค˜๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๊ตฌ๊ธ€์˜ ์ œํ’ˆ ์ „๋žต์ด ๋ณ€ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Œ์„ ์‹œ์‚ฌํ•œ๋‹ค.

Online forums feature mixed reactionsโ€”some see it as prudent efficiency sought by the corporation, others as a signal to exit big tech while you can.
์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ์—์„œ๋Š” ์—‡๊ฐˆ๋ฆฐ ๋ฐ˜์‘์ด ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚œ๋‹ค. ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€๋Š” ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ์—…์˜ ํ•ฉ๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ ํšจ์œจํ™”๋กœ ๋ณด์ง€๋งŒ, ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ด๋“ค์€ "๋น…ํ…Œํฌ ๊ธฐ์—…์—์„œ ๋‚˜์˜ฌ ์‹œ์ ์ด๋‹คโ€์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์‹ ํ˜ธ๋กœ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ธ๋‹ค.

๐ŸŽฌ Outro

When even Google Search feels the squeeze, no tech job is immune. Adaptability, not loyalty, may be the new career currency.
์ด์ œ ๊ตฌ๊ธ€ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰์กฐ์ฐจ ์••๋ฐ•์„ ๋ฐ›๋Š” ์‹œ๋Œ€๋‹ค. ๋” ์ด์ƒ ์ถฉ์„ฑ์‹ฌ์ด ์•„๋‹Œ '์ ์‘๋ ฅ'์ด ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ํ™”ํ๊ฐ€ ๋ ์ง€ ๋ชจ๋ฅธ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ—“ January 2023 โ€” Google laid off 12,000 employees, the largest cut in its history.
2023๋…„ 1์›” โ€” ๊ตฌ๊ธ€, ์ฐฝ์‚ฌ ์ด๋ž˜ ์ตœ๋Œ€ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์ธ 1๋งŒ 2์ฒœ ๋ช… ์ •๋ฆฌํ•ด๊ณ  ๋‹จํ–‰

๐Ÿงพ Sources

  • Google offers buyouts across divisions, including K&I โ€” CNBC (2025)

  • Google to remote staff: Return to office or reconsider roles โ€” Bloomberg (2025)

  • Tech labor trends and buyout analysis โ€” Wired (2024)

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