Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella leaves after attending a meeting with Indonesian president Joko Widodo in the presidential palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, on April 30, 2024.
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Microsoft On Tuesday it said that it fires 3% of employees at all levels, teams and regions.
“We continue to make organizational changes that are needed to best position the company for success in a dynamic marketplace,” said a Microsoft spokesperson in a statement to CNBC.
The company reported better than expected results, with $ 25.8 billion in quarterly net-inome, and a cheerful prediction at the end of April.
At the end of June, Microsoft had 228,000 employees worldwide, which means that the move will meet thousands of employees.
It is probably Microsoft’s Larganst round of dismissal since the elimination of 10,000 roles in 2023. In January the company announced a small round of dismissals based on performance. This new job loss is not related to the performance, the spokesperson said.
A goal is to reduce management layers, the spokesperson said. In January Amazon Annound that it was finished from sub -employees after Neds “unnoticed” in her organization.
Last week CyberSecury Software Provider Crowdstrike Announcing that it would dismiss 5% of his workforce.
In January Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Analysts that the company would make the implementation changes that would lead to lower growth than expected in Azure Cloud income that were not linked to artificial intelligence. Performance in AI Cloud Growth surpassed internal projections.
“How do you really adjust the stimuli, go-to-market?” Said Nadella. “In a time of platform shifts, you want to ensure that you even win on the new design, and you just don’t continue to do the things you have done in the previous generation.”
On Monday, Microsoft shares the trade ended at $ 449.26, the highest price to date this year. They closed in July in a record of $ 467.56.
