2025-07-02 19:29:00
Microsoft to Slash 9,000 Workers Amid AI Investment
Microsoft is set to lay off approximately 9,000 workers, the largest裁员规模以来的第二次大规模裁员,此前在2023年裁减了10,000名员工。公司发言人表示,此次裁员主要为了更好地应对市场动态,并优化组织结构以确保团队成功。据报道,此次裁员将主要影响销售部门,尽管微软一直在大力投资人工智能领域。CEO萨蒂亚·纳德拉此前透露,公司已有高达30%的代码由AI生成。
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The cuts target just under four percent of the companyâs workforce.
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Microsoft will be laying off about 9,000 workers, a company spokesperson said Wednesday, in what is the biggest round of layoffs since 2023 when 10,000 employees were let go. âWe continue to implement organizational changes necessary to best position the company and teams for success in a dynamic marketplace,â a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement, according to CNN. The companyâs headcount as of last July was 228,000, but Wednesdayâs announcementâcombined with cuts this May of
about 7,000
âseem to indicate a smaller workforce. The layoffs, Bloomberg
reported
last month, would primarily affect the sales division. Itâs unclear how the staff reductions may relate to artificial intelligence usage, though the company has been investing heavily in AI. CEO Satya Nadella
told
Meta head Mark Zuckerberg at a tech conference in April that as much as 30 percent of the companyâs code was AI-produced. Elsewhere in the tech industry, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy recently
announced
that AI will mean a reduced corporate workforce in which employees should learn to incorporate AI to âget more done with scrappier teams.â
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