Microsoft continues with its mass layoff plans for its large -scale investment in artificial intelligence, and is already planning another round of outputs that will affect thousands of its workers. On this occasion, according to Bloomberg, the dismissals They will mainly affect your sales area.
Apparently, the company plans to announce the departures at the beginning of next July, after its fiscal year ends. Although the company is going to focus especially on sales, layoffs will also affect other areas, still to be completed. In addition, the deadlines to announce and make the layoffs effective may still vary.
These exits follow another round of layoffs in May that affected 6,000 employees of Redmond. Above all, positions related to engineering and product. Then there were no personnel from areas with more customer -centered operations, such as sales and marketing.
Last April, the company communicated to its workforce that it had plans to use third -party companies to manage more sales of its software to SMEs. In addition, Microsoft has confirmed that from time to time evaluates its organizational structure to ensure that it invests. Since they are currently investing tens of billions of dollars in servers and data centers, their address has already warned its workers that it will keep investment in other areas under more control.
Specifically, Microsoft has planned a capital expense of 80,000 million dollars for this current fiscal year, and most of this amount, as we have pointed out, will go to data centers, with the intention of ending bottlenecks that prevent greater development of their AI services.
At the end of June 2024, Microsoft had 228,000 employees, of which 45,000 worked in sales and marketing departments. It is unknown how many are going to be affected by this next round of layoffs.
