Report: Google to cut contractors

Posted by Erina Lin on November 26, 2008 at 1:36 PM

Google said it is "significantly" reducing the number of contract workers, but currently has no plans to lay off employees, the Wall Street Journal said in a report, Reuters reported.

“We have been thinking for some time, before the acute phase of the economic crisis, about significantly reducing the number of contract workers,” said spokeswoman Jane Penner, according to the Reuters article posted on The U.S. Daily.

Google refused to specify the number of contract workers who may be cut, and Penner declined to discuss the pace of the job reductions, Reuters reported.

Google had 20,123 company employees as well as around 10,000 contractors at the end of the third quarter, according to the Reuters article, posted on The U.S. Daily.