Return to school begins with bad news for French employees of Microsoft. The American giant, who has initiated a vast global plan to reduce staff, will abolish 10% of his workforce in France to “improve (its) operational efficiency,” the group said on Monday, September 1 to AFP, confirming information from the informed site. This corresponds to around 200 positions, Microsoft uses almost 2,000 people in France, according to the media.
Microsoft specifies that it has signed a collective agreement of conventional rupture with all the union organizations representative of the personnel that will be implemented, based on volunteering, in the coming months. This type of output plan allows employees to leave the company receiving compensation corresponding to a minimum to a salary room of a month multiplied by the number of years of age. The latter can also benefit from unemployment insurance.
The fault of artificial intelligence?
These employment cuts are part of a global reduction plan, the firm co -in -found by Bill Gates announced that it has announced a total of up to almost 9,000 people in July and 6,000 in May.
Many observers 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.
Source: BFM TV
