Google’s health care projects, which were once scattered across the company, are now starting to come together under one team now working out of the Palo Alto offices formerly occupied by Nest, Google’s smart home group, according to several current and former employees. Google Health, which represents the first major new product area at Google since hardware, began to organize in 2018, and now numbers more than 500 people working under David Feinberg, who joined the company in early 2019. Most of these people were reassigned from other groups within Google, although the company has been hiring and currently has over a dozen open roles. Google and its parent company, Alphabet, are counting on new businesses as growth slows in its core digital advertising business.
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Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/11/google-health-has-more-than-500-employees.html