Microsoft layoffs hit its Silicon Valley workforce
Microsoft cuts his workforce from Silicon Valley.
The technology giant, which is based in Washington but also has offices in the Bay region, cuts 122 posts in Silicon Valley, according to a dismissal notice sent to the California job development service this week.
Microsoft cited reorganization and restructuring within the company as a reason for job cuts.
The employees of Bay Area Microsoft, who will lose their job in July, worked remotely or outside the offices of Mountain View and Santa Clara, California. Microsoft also has Linkedin, a social network for professionals, based in Sunnyvale.
Releases in California constitute a fraction of the 6,000 workers that the technological company based in Redmond Cup. Microsoft said on Tuesday that it lost around 3% of its global workforce, making it one of the largest job cuts in the company in two years. This is the last of a series of layoffs that continue to vibrate the technological industry since 2022.
The job cuts arise as the rise in artificial intelligence, which can also generate code, raises questions about the impact of technology on software engineers and other workers.
According to data provided by EDD. The positions of product management, applied sciences, electrical engineering and other fields have also been eliminated.
In April, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that 30% of the company code was written by AI during a conversation with Meta Director Meta Mark Zuckerberg at the Social Network Developers Conference.
Zuckerberg also said he thought that AI could write code as an intermediate level engineer in 2025.
While Microsoft competes with other major technological companies such as Google and Meta to publish more popular tools fed by AI, the company said it was trying to increase the speed at which it moves by reducing the number of managers.
“We continue to implement the organizational changes necessary to best position the company to succeed in a dynamic market,” said Jeff Jones, spokesperson for Microsoft, in a press release.
The company also said that it was trying to reduce redundancies while allowing employees to spend time to more significant work by taking advantage of technology.
In June, Microsoft employed 228,000 full-time workers and more than half of these workers were in the United States, according to the company’s annual report.
Microsoft declared a turnover of $ 70 billion for the third quarter of its financial year ending in March, an increase of 13% compared to the same period last year. The company’s net profit was $ 26 billion, up 16% from one year to the next.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
