Google announced last month that it would lay off 12,000 employees worldwide, and as part of the job cuts, employees working in Canada were informed that they had been laid off.

The Financial Post quoted Google Canada spokeswoman Lauren Skelly as saying that notifications were sent to employees affected by the job cuts announced last month, and Skelly reportedly said that Canada remains an important market and a priority for Google.

However, no information is available about the number of employees in the company's offices in Canada scheduled to be laid off and which departments are witnessing job cuts. Reportedly, those laid off include software engineers and user experience designers in Kitchener, Ontario.

Google has offices in Toronto, Kitchener Waterloo, Ontario, Vancouver, Ottawa, Montreal, and Edmonton. This news comes about two weeks after Bloomberg announced that Alphabet-owned AI unit DeepMind said it would close its offices in Canada. DeepMind also has an office in Edmonton, Alberta, which is DeepMind's only office not located on Google's campus.

Quoting a memo, the report also indicated that engineers and researchers who will be affected will be offered the option to relocate to other offices, including Canadian sites in Montreal and Toronto, which are located within Google offices."

Last month, Google announced that it would cut about 12,000 jobs or 6% of the company's workforce. Employees affected by the layoffs included those working in departments such as Google Cloud, Chrome to Android, strategy, recruitment, go-to-market teams, and the company's internal research and development division called Area 120.