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Microsoft is the latest large technology corporation to experience job losses during the recession by laying off staff in a number of its business segments. “Like other businesses, we routinely examine our business priorities and make structural adjustments in line with those findings.” The following year, we would keep making investments in our company. In regions that are poised for growth, we will keep hiring. The digital giant did not specify the industries or personnel affected, although Axios reported fewer than 1,000 layoffs.
Verge senior editor Tom Warren added that the job cuts impacted people in Experience and Devices, Xbox and the Legal group. Some of them were believed to be veteran workers at the company. As pointed out by Axios, the layoffs occurred at all levels and in all geographies, so employees outside the US were laid off as well.
As it delays the adoption of Windows, Office, and Teams groups this year, Microsoft has indicated signals that it is exploring working with a thinner workforce, citing the need to realign employee priorities. Less than 1% of his 180,000 employees—or around 1,800—were let go in July, and the opportunities for the Azure cloud and security groups were later eliminated. Similar steps have recently been made by other tech firms.
Google postponed adoption as a result of the “uncertain global economic environment,” as CEO Sundar Pichai put it. Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg reportedly informed staff that the company was going through “difficult times” and that reduction and reorganization of the team were necessary to reduce expenses.