Google parent Alphabet Inc. is reportedly slashing jobs within its innovation lab called X as it adopts a new structure.
In recent months, X – described as a diverse group of inventors and entrepreneurs that develops technologies to solve the world's hardest problems – has increased talks regarding funding with venture capitalists and other investors, so they can launch projects even faster, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.
X was established in 2010 by Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin with the goal of working on "far-out, sci-fi sounding technologies that could one day make the world a radically better place." Since then, the division has "incubated hundreds of different moonshot projects," with many going on to become independent businesses.
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The lab's new structure will help projects spin out to become independent businesses even more quickly with support from Alphabet as well as outside backers, Bloomberg reported, citing one of the people and an email to staff obtained by the outlet.
The cuts resulting from this transition will impact support staff, sources told the outlet. The number of roles impacted was not disclosed.
Representatives for Alphabet did not respond to FOX Business' request for comment.
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The move comes after Alphabet's Google announced it was laying off several hundred employees as it continues to focus on cost-cutting measures.
Those Google cuts will affect its advertising-sales team.
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Earlier this month, Google announced that a few hundred employees working on the company's voice assistant unit and another few hundred people working on the augmented reality hardware team would be laid off. A few hundred roles within its central engineering team are also impacted.
