Dhaka, June 11 -- Google has offered buyouts to another swath of its workforce across several key divisions in a fresh round of cost cutting coming ahead of a court decision that could order a breakup of its internet empire.

The Mountain View, California, company confirmed the streamlining that was reported by several news outlets. It's not clear how many employees are affected, but the offers were made to staff in Google's search, advertising, research and engineering units, according to The Wall Street Journal.

AP reported that Google employs most of the nearly 186,000 workers on the worldwide payroll of its parent company, Alphabet Inc.

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