The AI boom didn't stop Google from hiring nearly 12,000 people

Business Insider· 8h ago· 4 min read

Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Benjamin Fanjoy/Getty Images Google's parent company, Alphabet, grew its head count by 11,830 between June 2025 and June 2026. The tech giant reported blockbuster second-quarter earnings, revealing revenue of $119.8 billion. The update comes as Google workers rallied for layoff protections last week. As companies make rounds of job cuts and double down on AI spend, Google's parent company Alphabet is expanding its workforce. Alphabet reported blockbuster second-quarter earnings, with revenue climbing 24% year over year to $119.8 billion. The company revealed in its earnings report that it increased head count by 11,830 employees, from 187,103 to 198,933, between June 30, 2025 and June 30, 2026. The chart below shows how Alphabet's workforce has grown from the end of the first quarter of 2025 through the end of the second quarter of 2026. The biggest jump in Alphabet's head count of the last couple of years came in the second quarter of 2026, when the comp

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