Microsoft cuts 3% of his workforce

Microsoft On Tuesday it was said that there are 3% of employees at all levels, teams and geographies.

“We continue to implement organizational changes that are necessary to position the company for success in a dynamic market,” said a Microsoft spokesman in a statement to CNBC.

At the end of April, the company reported better than expected results and an optimistic quarterly forecast.

Microsoft had 228,000 employees worldwide at the end of June, which means that moving concerns thousands of employees.

It is likely that Microsoft’s largest discharge round has announced a small round of performance -related layoffs since the elimination of 10,000 roles in 2023 in January. These new job cuts are not related to performance, said the speaker.

One goal is to reduce management layers, said the spokesman.

Last week cybersecurity software provider Crowdstrike announced that 5% of its workforce would be released.

In January, Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, announced analysts that the company would change sales changes, which led to less growth in Azure cloud income that was not associated with artificial intelligence. Performance in the AI ​​-Cloud growth exceeds internal projections.

“How do you really optimize the incentives, the incentives?” Said Nadella. “In a time of the platform shifts, you would like to make sure that you also base yourself in the new design gains, and you just don’t do what you did in the previous generation.”

On Monday, Microsoft Shares ended the trade with $ 449.26, the highest price so far this year. They closed $ 467.56 last July.

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