Microsoft, the world’s largest software company headquartered in Redmond, announced that it would lay off 10,000 jobs this year, and it made another layoff in the Seattle area.
According to the Washington State Employment Security Administration (ESD), it was confirmed that Microsoft notified on the 27th that it would lay off an additional 559 people at its headquarters in Redmond and in the Seattle area, including Bellevue and Issaquah.
Accordingly, in the Seattle area, a total of 4 layoffs were carried out: 878 in January, 617 in February, 689 in March, and 559 this time.
As a result, the Seattle area exceeded 27% of the total number of layoffs of 10,000. It was found that the workers who were laid off this time were concentrated in MS security.
Microsoft provides compensation equivalent to two months’ wages to employees subject to dismissal.
Microsoft is pushing ahead with job cuts, announcing in January that it plans to cut 10,000 jobs, or 5% of the company’s total workforce, by the end of March.
Accordingly, attention is focused on how many of the 10,000 layoffs that Microsoft is pursuing in the Seattle area will eventually be cut.
Microsoft currently has about 50,000 employees in its headquarters in Redmond, Bellevue, and Issaquah.
As a result, it is said that MS employees are suffering from additional layoffs, even though 2,700 of the total 50,000 employees account for a small proportion.
Microsoft’s decision to lay off 10,000 people is the second largest manpower reduction in Microsoft’s history. Microsoft has laid off 18,000 employees since Satya Nadella took over as CEO in 2014.
Along with Microsoft, another big tech company headquartered in Seattle, Amazon, also announced that it would lay off an additional 9,000 jobs following the layoffs of 18,000 in January.