Fresh round of layoffs at Microsoft hits 276 employees: report

The layoffs are over the 10,000 global layoffs announced by Microsoft on January 18, as per a report in Geek Wire. Microsoft has fired 276 employees in Washington State.

The jobs cuts will affect 210 workers in the company’s Bellevue and Redmond offices and 66 virtual staffers, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN).

“Organisational and workforce adjustments are a necessary and regular part of managing our business,” a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement, as per the report.

“We will continue to prioritise and invest in strategic growth areas for our future and in support of our customers and partners,” the spokesperson added.

Several posts on leading professional networking platform LinkedIn revealed job cuts that targeted customer support and sales jobs across teams.

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In May, Microsoft slashed 158 jobs in Washington State which were not part of the 10,000 announced earlier. According to reports, more than 2,700 Seattle-area workers were affected by the layoffs announced earlier this year. Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella had in January announced that the company will be “making changes that will result in the reduction of our overall workforce by 10,000 jobs through the end of FY23 Q3 (third quarter)”. The tech giant had more than 220,000 employees.

The firm is also grappling with a slump in the personal computer market after a pandemic boom fizzled out, leaving little demand for its Windows and accompanying software.

Nadella wrote in a blog post that organisations in every industry and geography are now “exercising caution as some parts of the world are in a recession and other parts are anticipating one”.