In May, Microsoft laid off 3% of its global employee base, letting go as many as 6,000 people to ‘implement organizational changes necessary to best position the company for success’. In a report published today by Bloomberg, it was revealed that ‘thousands more’ jobs are set to be cut, with a particular focus on Microsoft’s sales departments.
It was revealed in the Bloomberg report that Microsoft is making use of ‘third-party firms’ (read: outsourcing) to handle sales to the majority of the firm’s customers.
Huge Waves
Microsoft has been one of the biggest contributors to the last few years of layoffs across the technology space, and those redundancies have naturally impacted the gaming industry. While these impending layoffs aren’t expected to directly impact gaming, they’re pushing thousands of employees out of work and into an already overpopulated job market.
The news regarding the upcoming round of layoffs was broken by Bloomberg’s Brody Ford and Matt Day, who revealed that the redundancies are expected to be announced in the next few weeks as Microsoft’s fiscal year comes to an end.
In May, a staggering number of employees were let go from Microsoft, and it was reported that even higher-level management wasn’t safe from the vast waves of redundancies. This upcoming hit will be the third major round of layoffs at Microsoft in just six months.
According to Bloomberg, Microsoft had around 228,000 workers on the books as of a year ago.
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