Microsoft says it is cutting thousands of jobs in the second round of retrenchment in recent months
Microsoft says that she has been cutting thousands of jobs in large -scale pruning in its second round in recent months.
While the company did not specify the exact number of those who would be losing their jobs, it says it was less than four percent of its total workforce, which would be around 9,000 people. (The company appointed 228,000 people by June 2024.)
Microsoft also did not directly answer a question of CBC News as a result of how many Canadian jobs were lost as a result, but said the deduction was happening in various teams and places.
However, Canadian Media Guild President Carmel Smith said that the union is not believed that any of the 120 employees representing the Montreal-based Bethesda Game Studio (owned by Microsoft) would be affected. She also says that the cut will probably affect Microsoft’s American studios for most parts, but “any downsizing of workers in this profitable and rapidly growing industry is very disappointing.” (Canadian Media Guild also represents CBC employees, and Smith is on his role as a manufacturer with CBC).
Microsoft stated that the cut would affect many teams worldwide, including its sales division and its Xbox video game business. Overall, the gaming industry is Saw job loss In recent years.
“We continue to apply the organizational changes to the company for success in a dynamic market,” a spokesman said in an email.
Last year, the Canadian video game industry saw hundreds of pruning, a trend that is expected to continue in 2024, which is a reason to make video game workers a union.
Microsoft cut after the first time cut off 6,000 employees In May. It also cut another 300 workers on the basis of its Redmund, Wash., Headquarters in June. And in 2023, it shut down 10,000 peopleOr five percent of its total workforce.
The cuts announced in May were very focused in software engineering and product management roles, according to the list by the company sent to employment agencies in Washington and California – where Cuts also killed Microsoft offices in the San Francisco Gulf region.
The company has repeatedly stated that its recent pruning is part of a push to trim its management layers, but focusing on software engineering is worried about how the company’s own AI code-writing products have reduced the number of people for those jobs.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said earlier this year that “perhaps 20, 30 percent code” for some coding projects of Microsoft “is probably written by all software.”
