Microsoft is closing thousands of workers, Its second month trimming Its biggest in months and in more than two years.
Tech veteran on Wednesday began to send prudes notices, which hit the company’s Xbox video game business and other divisions.
The company refused to say how many people would be closed, but said that it was less than 4% of the workforce a year ago.
Microsoft said the deduction would affect several teams worldwide, including its sales division.
“We continue to implement the organizational changes required to the company and teams for success in a dynamic market,” he said in a statement.
Xbox CEO Phil Spencer also sent a memorandum to employees on Wednesday stating that the deduction video game would “to make permanent for success and allow us to focus on strategic development areas.”
It would also “lead the leadership of Microsoft in removing the layers of management to increase agility and effectiveness,” the Spencer wrote.
Microsoft had appointed 228,000 full -time workers by last June, last time it reported his annual headcon. The company said on Wednesday that its latest pruning would cut 4% of the workforce, which will be around 9,000 people. But this year at least three have already been trimmed and it is unlikely that the new hiring has matched the lost amount.
Till now, the biggest pruning of this year was in May, when Microsoft began to close about 6,000 workers, about 3% of its global workforce and its biggest job was cut in more than two years as the company spent heavily artificial intelligence,
Microsoft also cut another 300 workers based on its Redmund, Washington headquarters in June, at the top of about 2,000, who lost their jobs in the Pagate Sound area in May, according to the notices sent to the employment officials of Washington State.
The pruning announced in May, according to the list of the company list sent to employment agencies in Washington and California, focused a huge focus on people in software engineering and product management roles – where Cuts also killed Microsoft offices in the San Francisco Gulf region.
Microsoft’s Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood said on the April earnings that the company focused on manufacturing high -performing teams and increasing our agility by reducing layers with fewer managers. “
The company has repeatedly depicted its recent trim as part of a push for trim management layers, but focusing on software engineering jobs is worried about how the company’s own AI code-writing products can reduce the number of people required for programming jobs.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella stated earlier this year that for some Microsoft’s coding projects “perhaps 20, 30% code” “are probably written by all software.”
However, the latest layoffs focused on the slow-growing areas of the company’s business, said Vesabash Securities Analyst Dan Ewes.
“They are focusing more and more on AI, Cloud and the next generation Microsoft and are actually looking to cut costs around the Xbox and some more heritage areas,” Ives said, “Ives said,” Ivees said, “Ivees said,” they are actually focusing more and more inheritance areas. “I think they have been overhead overhead in the last few years. It is Nadella and team that is making sure they are keeping with efficiency and this is the name of the game in Wall Street.”
Matt O’Brien, Associated Press