Whether these benefits benefits and commitments will remain the same is uncertain. The spokesperson also confirmed the staff reassignments to other Google products, describing the measure as a way to redirect Google's workforce while a new deployment strategy develops. Google is hunting for cheaper installs and greater profit margins. Digging deep trenches neighborhood by neighborhood is notoriously costly and the Mountain View, California, company is exploring promising methods to ease the strain. Google Fiber's engineers are investigating micro-trenching, a technique that cuts installation time in half and cuts costs by digging trenches just a few inches wide below the road surface.