“We will continue to make necessary organizational changes to best position ourselves in a changing market landscape,” a Microsoft spokesperson said in an email to CNBC.
Microsoft’s layoffs are not sparing any level, industry, or geographic region, but the focus seems to be on trimming the middle management layers. Even seemingly solid businesses like Xbox and LinkedIn are not immune to the impact.
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| Microsoft lays off 6,000 employees globally, regardless of rank |
This is the first large-scale staff reduction since early 2023, when Microsoft said goodbye to 10,000 employees (nearly 5% of its total staff). Previously, in January of this year, there was also a smaller round of layoffs based on work performance reviews, as a harbinger of larger changes.
Microsoft employed 228,000 people as of the end of June 2024. The Windows maker has been under pressure in recent years to control costs while focusing on data centers, which the company is on track to spend $80 billion on this year.
Microsoft typically restructures its divisions and announces other changes as its fiscal year draws to a close, according to Bloomberg . Late last month, the U.S. tech giant also shared plans to use third parties to sell software to small and medium-sized customers.
Not only Microsoft, many other large technology companies have also made personnel adjustments in recent times, such as Panasonic cutting 10,000 jobs, Meta laying off 5% of "employees with the lowest performance scores", equivalent to nearly 4,000 people, CrowdStrike cutting 5%. Intel also plans to let about 20,000 employees quit to carry out the reform campaign.
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