Microsoft announces new round of layoffs, customer service, support, sales staff affected

Tech Giant Microsoft announced a new round of layoffs that would affect various positions in customer service, support and sales, GeekWire reported on Monday. report stated that Microsoft laid off 276 employees out of which 210 were sacked from company's Redmond, Wash and Bellevue locations while 66 employees worked remotely.

Microsoft layoffs since start of year

company has cut 10,000 jobs since January, this year. Although a specific update has not come from Microsoft, reports reveal that decision to restructure business at start of fiscal is not a new practice in company whose fiscal year ended last month. GeekWire has confirmed news through an inquiry without getting much details on layoffs.

“Organisational and workforce justments are a necessary and regular part of managing our business. We will continue to prioritise and invest in strategic growth areas for our future and in support of our customers and partners,” a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement.

More information on nature and departments affected was confirmed by certain LinkedIn posts.

Layoffs in 2023

In January this year, CEO of Microsoft Satya Nella cited reasons for layoffs and said that step was necessary to align cost structure with revenue, reby catering to customer demand.

layoffs were recorded as second largest cut in Microsoft's history after 2014 when it cut 18,000 jobs.

In dition to Microsoft, or tech giants like Amazon, Meta and Google have also laid off employees citing different reasons. numbers which were raised during pandemic level to meet demand are now slowly witnessing a downward movement citing improved market conditions.

According to Layoffs.fyi, total number of employees laid off at present includes 2,16,364 from around 844 tech companies. recent layoffs are from companies like FrontRow, IntelyCare, Latch, Microsoft and Evernote. Some of m have even fired more than 60 per cent workforce.