A new tech giant plans to kick 11,000 employees out of its offices

In the midst of an atypical situation in the technology sector, Microsoft is considering laying off some 11,000 employees5% of its workforce, a version that is linked to measures adopted in recent times by companies such as Amazon or Facebook.

Microsoft put a good part of its engineering team under evaluation, according to what they published skynews and Bloomberg. The situation transcended days before the company report your quarterly resultsnext January 24.

Despite the versions, the company refused to respond to inquiries of international agencies. During the day, Microsoft shares rose 0.5% on strong volume in afternoon trading on Wall Street.

The firm, located in Redwood, in the state of Washington, in the United States, It has already carried out two waves of layoffs: one in July, which according to the company covered less than 1% of its salary base, and another in October, which affected less than 1,000 people, according to Axios.

Microsoft currently has 221,000 employees, 122,000 of them in the United States., according to the information provided on its official site. Its market value is 1.78 trillion dollars.

The firm’s CEO, Satya Nadella, explained in November that no company was safe from macroeconomic trends, which show a slowdown in activity. “Everyone should control their spending and demand properly”, he stated in an interview with CNBC.

In view of the presentation of its next economic report, a certain pessimism emerged in the company. Its turnover is expected to have increased 2.7% in one yeara very weak pace for the computer giant used to, at least, double digits.

After exploding at the beginning of the pandemic, the demand for computer products normalizeda situation that has worsened in recent months due to the rise in rates by the US central bank (Fed).

While Amazon announced that he would fire 18 thousand workers, Meta, the owner of Facebook, reported that it would reduce its workforce by approximately 11,000 positions. Meanwhile, Salesforce, the cloud software provider, reported a reduction of 8,000 jobs.

Twitter, with the arrival of Elon Musk, also moved forward with a staff cut. And the maker of personal computers HP ordered the departure of 6,000 members of its workforce.

Amazon announced days ago that it will fire around 18,000 employees as of January 18. The firm alleged that the decision was taken in the face of global “instability in the economy” and for having “hired (staff) quickly in recent years,” according to a note signed by its executive director, Andy Jassy.

The reduction plan It is the largest among recent job cut announcements affecting the US technology sector. It’s also the most severe cut in the history of the Seattle-based company. The affected workers will be informed from the third week of January and the cuts amount to about 6% of the workforce, of approximately 300,000 employees.

“Between the reductions we made in November and the ones we share today, we plan to eliminate just over 18,000 roles. Several computers are affected; however, the majority of role eliminations are in our Amazon stores and PXT organizations,” Jassy noted in the move announcement.

And he clarified: “We are working to support the people affected and we provide packages that include a separation payment, transition health insurance benefits and outside job placement support”.

With information from Reuters and AFP

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