After shedding over 1,000 employees throughout a number of divisions final week and slicing 100 jobs at YouTube, Google CEO Sundar Pichai despatched a memo to its workers warning extra layoffs are anticipated this yr.

Pichai’s memo mentioned the corporate must make “robust selections” to fulfill its formidable targets, as reported by The Verge.

The CEO mentioned this yr’s cuts gained’t be on the scale of final yr’s job cuts, the place the corporate let go 12,000 folks or 6% of its workforce.

“These function eliminations are usually not on the scale of final yr’s reductions, and won’t contact each crew. However I do know it’s very tough to see colleagues and groups impacted,” he mentioned in an e mail to staffers.

“Many of those adjustments are already introduced, although to be upfront, some groups will proceed to make particular useful resource allocation selections all year long the place wanted, and a few roles could also be impacted.”

Final week’s Google layoffs impacted a number of groups together with {hardware}, engineering, advertisements, and providers, with over 1,000 staffers laid off. On the time, the firm additionally confirmed to TechCrunch that Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman had been leaving the group.

On Wednesday, Google laid off 100 YouTube staffers as a part of reorganization.

“To greatest place us for these alternatives, all through the second half of 2023, a variety of our groups made adjustments to grow to be extra environment friendly and work higher, and to align their sources to their largest product priorities. Some groups are persevering with to make these sorts of organizational adjustments, which embrace some function eliminations globally,” a Google spokesperson mentioned in an announcement in response to YouTube layoffs.