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Microsoft laying off about 9,000 employees in latest round of cuts
- Microsoft announced layoffs affecting about 9,000 employees, representing nearly 4% of its global workforce as of last year.
- This latest round of job cuts comes after earlier reductions, including 6,000 layoffs in May, as Microsoft shifts its focus toward investments in artificial intelligence and undergoes organizational restructuring.
- The reductions impact multiple divisions worldwide, including Xbox gaming, sales, and other groups, and involve significant removal of management layers.
- Microsoft plans to invest about $80 billion in AI infrastructure, with CEO Satya Nadella noting 20-30% of some coding projects are now written by software.
- These workforce adjustments are designed to create more effective teams and enhance organizational flexibility, enabling Microsoft to thrive amid the rapidly evolving landscape driven by AI.
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Novinky.cz
AftenpostenAmerican software company Microsoft will lay off up to four percent of its employees, or about 9,000 people. It will be the largest wave of layoffs since 2023.
However, the company has already sent fifteen thousand people this year.
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Kronen Zeitung
The software giant Microsoft is cutting thousands of jobs for the second time in less than two months. The cuts are said to hit less than four percent of the workforce, as the company reported. An exact figure was not mentioned. At the latest available level at the end of June 2024, Microsoft had around 228,000 employees, of which 126,000 in the US. In May, Microsoft spoke of the dismantling of less than three percent of the workforce – and also…
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