Microsoft in Ax 3 percent of the workforce in the last round of work cuts

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Microsoft will reduce 3 percent of its global labor force, the last round of work cuts in a large technology company, as it seeks to streamline operations and medium management layers.

The Washington -based Redmond group said on Tuesday that it would eliminate about 6,000 roles, included in the international offices and the full ownership subsidiaries such as Linkedin. The movements follow the work -related work cuts this year, which affected about 2,000 Microsoft employees.

“We continue to implement the organizational changes needed to better place the company to succeed in a dynamic market,” the company said in a statement.

Microsoft has joined as Amazon and Meta by eliminating thousands of roles, as technology companies continue to rebalance the labor force in the midst of important investments in artificial intelligence and the largest competition with start-ups, including Openai.

Meta scored about 5 percent of the company’s bass performers before say goodbye this year. The company, which said in a regulatory presentation, had about 74,000 employees at the end of 2024 – has already reduced almost a quarter of its employees in recent years.

Amazon’s chief Andy Jassy said last year that the company was struggling to “eliminate bureaucracy” and pursue a flatter structure with less average management. The e -commerce giant eliminated 27,000 roles in two large rounds of working cuts by 2023, while Amazon Web Services reduced hundreds of papers by 2024.

Microsoft published Best of expected income In the three months until the end of March, the company praised a strong growth in its cloud division. His actions have passed his colleagues since the beginning of this year, and the software giant recently regained the title of the most valuable company in the world.

The financial director, Amy Hood, told the investors last month that Microsoft focused on “building high -performance teams and increasing our agility by reducing layers with less managers.”

The company last year cut about 2,500 roles from its Xbox Games Unit after the acquisition of the Activision Blizzard publishing house. It cut around 1,000 roles through its augmented reality headphones and a azure cloud computer units in the same period.

By 2023, Microsoft said that it would let go of 10,000 employees, as it was the slowest revenue growth.

Microsoft did not confirm if the announcement on Tuesday was promoted by AI-led efficiency, although the executive director Satya Nadella said at the beginning of the year that 20-30 % of the company code was written through these tools.

Rishi Jaluria, an RBC analyst, said that work cuts were a counterweight to AI’s infrastructure spending and predicted that the count would still grow this year, but at a slower rate due to the increase in efficiency.

“These almost conglomerates have too many layers,” said Jaluria.