Days after sacking 6000 employees, Satya Nadella’s Microsoft lays off hundreds of workers in…, move to affect….

After companywide cuts by Microsoft in which they had cut 3% of the company’s staff, now they are laying off 305 employees in Washington.The company notified affected workers on Monday, according to a state Employment Security Department filing cited by media report.

Microsoft also claimed that layoffs were much less than 1% of its total workforce but didn’t reveal if employees outside of Washington were affected by it or not.

“We continue to implement organizational changes necessary to best position the company for success in a dynamic marketplace,” a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement.

In May, the company had laid off more than 6,000 people in a 3% cut of its workforce. Out of which 1,985 employees affected were from Washington.

Microsoft justified the layoffs Monday and also earlier in May by stating that it was restructuring its workforce. The company also said it was looking to reduce management layers, but the report cited data  and claimed that only non-managers were affected. The layoffs hit mostly software engineers and product managers. Less than 17% of the layoffs affected employees who were listed as managers.

In two rounds of layoffs, Microsoft has fired around 2,300 employees in Washington this year. Earlier in 2023, the company had fired 3,200 people, which was the biggest layoffs round. After the COVID-19 pandemic other tech companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and Google also laid off thousands of workers to reduce their staff.

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