Microsoft has confirmed the next dismissal of 3% of its templatethose who It will affect just over 6,000 of its employees current. The layoffs, according to the company, will be carried out to expedite their operations and lighten their management structure. They will affect, according to The Verge, all the company’s teams, including LinkedIn. Likewise, the outputs will occur at all levels, and will occur in all regions in which Microsoft has a presence.
The last remarkable round of layoffs in the company occurred in 2023, when Redmond eliminated about 10,000 jobs. On this occasion, according to the company, these exits will be produced for «Implement the necessary organizational changes to place the company as well as possible for success in a dynamic market«.
This new round of layoffs occurs only a few weeks after the company’s financial manager, Amy Hood, gave clues about the next implementation of plans focused on reducing Microsoft management and management layers. Thus, on April 30, Hood commented that they were still focused on the development of high performance equipment. Also in increasing the agility of your business through laying reduction and having less intermediate controls.
On the other hand, Microsoft began last year to Make performance -based personnel cutswhat has resulted in the departure of the company so far from several hundred workers. In addition, those of Redmond have made several rounds of layoffs in some of their subsidiaries in recent months.
A more than a year ago that fired 1,900 people from Activision Blizzard and Xbox, and May 2024 closed several games studies. In addition, he fired about 1,500 employees of their Hololens and Azure divisions, and another 650 Xbox employees last September.
