Microsoft
announced this Wednesday that it will
lay off 10,000 employees
, about 5% of its workforce, and that it has begun to notify some of the layoffs.
The executive president,
Satya Nadella
, also noted in a statement that the company is going through
"significant changes"
.
Nadella explained that when she meets with clients, she notices that they are no longer "accelerating their digital spend," as seen during the pandemic, but instead opting to
"optimize their digital spend to do more with less
. "
"We're also seeing organizations across industries and geographies tread cautiously as
some parts of the world are in a recession
and other parts anticipate one," he adds.
The Microsoft chief executive added that the company will take a
$1.2 billion impairment charge on its earnings
due to severance costs and changes to its hardware portfolio, among others.
According to information on its website,
Microsoft currently has 221,000 employees
worldwide.
The bad moment of Microsoft, in numbers
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
(Photo: AFP)
The software company's revenue growth has
slowed in recent quarters
.
Next Tuesday, Microsoft will announce its latest quarterly results.
Its shares have fallen 23% in the last 12 months
, in line with the Nasdaq index - where the main technology companies are listed - which fell 26%.
And 45 minutes after the opening of the stock market today, its shares were up a slight 0.25%.
Last July, Microsoft notified a round of layoffs that affected 1% of its workforce, which
had a total of around 180,000 employees
, as a result of a "strategic readjustment" at the start of its new fiscal year.
Since the start of the new year,
several tech companies have cut their workforces
as the boom fueled by the covid pandemic, which increased the number of employees, now grows fears of a possible economic downturn.
According to information on its website, Microsoft currently has 221,000 employees worldwide.
Photo: EFE
Amazon
said this month it planned to lay off more than 18,000 employees - of which 10,000 have already been laid off in 2022 - and last November, Facebook's parent company,
Meta
, said it would cut more than 11,000 workers.
Lyft, Salesforce, DoorDash, Snap, and Twitter were other companies in the sector that announced layoffs in recent months.
With agency information.
SL
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