Microsoft fired one thousand employees!

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San Francisco. Microsoft reduced the number of its employees by one thousand last week. Most of these are from the sales and customer service teams.

An Insider report cited sources as saying that the new layoffs are on top of the 10,000 jobs the tech giant planned to eliminate earlier this year.

The report states that making changes at the start of the new fiscal year is a regular process for Microsoft, which began on July 1.

Microsoft has reportedly shut down its “Digital Sales and Success” group, its sales and customer service team.

According to the report, “the company also eliminated the role of Customer Solutions Manager, moving some employees to another role called Customer Success Account Management.”

Job cuts also affected engineering project managers and employees in the marketing department.

Last week, reports emerged that Microsoft had laid off 276 employees in a new round of job cuts, most of them from customer service, support and sales teams.

“Organizational and workforce adjustments are a necessary and routine part of managing our business,” a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement.

“We will continue to prioritize and invest in strategic growth areas for our future and in support of our customers and partners,” the spokesperson said.

The job cuts were revealed by several posts on LinkedIn, the leading professional networking platform, targeting customer support and sales jobs in Teams.

In May, Microsoft cut 158 ​​jobs in Washington state that were not part of the previously announced 10,000 jobs.

More than 2,700 Seattle-area workers are reportedly affected by the layoffs announced earlier this year.

The tech giant has over 2 lakh 20 thousand employees (as reported earlier this year).(IANS)

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