Microsoft Layoffs: Layoffs Are Not Stopping! Microsoft Showed The Way Out To 276 Employees From These Departments

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Microsoft Layoffs News: Retrenchment process is going on in giant companies. Companies like Amazon, Google, Twitter, Meta have laid off employees in several phases in the past few months. Microsoft, which announced the layoff of 10,000 employees in January, has once again shown the way out to hundreds of employees. The tech company laid off a total of 276 employees in the latest round of layoffs.

Employees removed from these teams-

Most of the affected employees belong to customer service, support and sales teams. According to a report published in GeekWire, these layoffs are in addition to the 10,000 layoffs the company announced in January. These employees were working in the state of Washington, USA. The layoffs affect 210 and 66 virtual employees in the Bellevue and Redmond offices.

The company said this

According to Geek Wire news, while informing about the matter, a company official said that we do our management from time to time for better utilization of our employees. In such a situation this change is a regular part of our work. Along with this, the official also said that in the future, he will continue to take such decisions keeping in mind the interests of his company and the needs of the customers. It is noteworthy that earlier in May, Microsoft had shown the way out to a total of 158 employees. The layoffs were also different from those proposed in January. This affected employees working in Washington State.

10,000 Employees will be laid off

Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella announced that a total of 10,000 positions will be cut at the company by the third quarter of FY2023. In such a situation, in Seattle, the company first massively laid off a total of 2,700 employees.

Half of the year 2023 has passed and within the first six months of the year, the global jobs crisis has deepened to such an extent that clouds of anxiety have loomed. In the first half of the year, more than 2.12 lakh employees lost their jobs globally, be it big tech companies or startups, the situation is the same. The situation in the global technology sector in the first half of 2023 is becoming more alarming.