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Enterprise recruiting platform iCIMS has earned a top-five user experience ranking for the third consecutive year in Sapient Insights Group's HR Systems Survey, while new research reveals that 92% of HR professionals believe employees can be reskilled for AI roles yet external hiring continues to outpace internal redeployment. Google is extending voluntary buyout offers across multiple countries and Microsoft faces scrutiny over how its own buyouts may affect AI ambitions, as job reductions also hit Virgin Media O2 under a cost-saving drive. On the workforce data front, ADP's National Employment Report shows private-sector employment rose by 86,000 jobs in October, and Lockheed Martin has agreed to pay $29.5 million to resolve alleged employment discrimination violations.
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Google confirmed it began offering voluntary exit packages in June 2026 to some employees in Canada, France, Germany, Japan and Switzerland, as Alphabet works to contain costs during heavy AI spending. In Switzerland, staff who accepted got one month's salary per year of service, capped at 12 months, and DeepMind was reportedly excluded. The move follows earlier buyout programs in some U.S. and British divisions.
Google, the Alphabet unit, has expanded its voluntary exit packages to employees in five more countries, according to Yahoo! Finance Canada. The move extends a buyout option that lets staff leave voluntarily, a workforce-strategy signal for HR leaders tracking how large employers reshape headcount. The report does not give package terms or the names of the countries in the excerpt provided.
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