An official source from the multinational responded to Lusa that Microsoft is, globally, “implementing necessary organizational changes to better position the company for success in a dynamic market”, reiterating the statement it has been publishing for several months.
Headquartered in Seattle, in the United States of America, Microsoft has been making several layoffs.
The most recent round of departures, the second in a few months, was announced in early July, affecting thousands of workers in several teams globally, including in sales and the Xbox video games division.
Microsoft began sending layoff notices on July 2, but in a statement declined to specify the exact number of employees covered. It only indicated that the cuts represent less than 4% of the workforce it had a year ago.
According to data released in June last year, Microsoft employed around 228,000 full-time workers, so the reduction announced in July may have affected close to 9,000 people.
However, it was not clear whether the cut announced in July included the approximately 6,000 workers already laid off in a previous wave, announced two months earlier, in May.
These rounds of cuts come at a time when several technology companies continue to adjust their structures after heavy investments and hiring during the pandemic years.
Microsoft, in particular, has been under pressure in recent years to control costs, given a context of high spending on data centers that power artificial intelligence and cloud computing services.
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