Microsoft will fire several thousand additional people after a first wave in May, the group told AFP on Wednesday, in particular by reducing certain hierarchical levels.
“The total impact represents less than 4% of the workforce,” according to a spokesman, or up to 9,000 employees, depending on a total workforce of 228,000 people according to the latest annual report.
“We continue to make organizational changes necessary for the company’s favorable positioning and its equipment in an evolving market context,” said the spokesman. In mid -May, the Redmond Group (Washington State) had already presented a social plan on “less than 3%” of the staff, or around 6,000 people.
“We gained agility by reducing the” hierarchical staircase, Microsoft said that, according to several media, it had already separated from around 2,000 employees since the beginning of the year before these two sets of stalls.
“Minimize duplicates”
Many make the link between this weight loss treatment and the display of artificial intelligence (AI) within the company, among the most advanced in this area. At the end of April, Microsoft’s general manager, Satya Nadella, had revealed that the internal programming code was now written by AI. When asked about the impact of artificial intelligence on their workforce, the group did not follow up immediately.
Microsoft simply talks about “minimizing duplicates through refining (their) processes, (their) products, (Sus) procedures and (their) functions.” “We will allow employees to spend more time with useful tasks thanks to the deployment of new technologies and functionalities,” Microsoft described on Wednesday.
At the beginning of 2023, the Redmond company (Washington state) had dismissed around 10,000 people, a decision presented as a result of a counterproduction in the acceleration of IT expenses during the Ponetia of the Coronavirus. However, the company had continued to increase its Net number, the 228,000 employees of 2024 constituted a record, 63% more compared to the total of 2019, just before the pandemic.
Source: BFM TV
