Microsoft has been reported to cut another 700 jobs within the 1st quarter of this year. The tech giant had previously announced a plan to cut 2,850 jobs in the 4th quarter of last year.
Microsoft lays off thousands of workers. According to a Business Insider report, most of the planned 2,850 jobs for cutting had already been done. The upcoming 700, which is but a fraction of the initial number of job cuts, will be spread across offices and business units worldwide.
The aforementioned report, which quoted sources, stated that "The upcoming cuts won't be specific to any single group but will be spread across the company's offices and business units, including sales, marketing, human resources, engineering, finance and more." The goal of the layoff is for the company to update their workforce's skills across its different units.
Microsoft currently has a workforce of around 120,000 people. The Redmond-based tech giant still has over 1,600 job openings on LinkedIn.
Most of the jobs cut were from their smartphone business which amounted to almost 7,400 jobs in its last fiscal year alone. The biggest number of jobs ever cut was 18,000 back in 2014 which include 12,500 jobs associated to Nokia when it was acquired.
The most recent job cut was from the shutdown of the company's Skype London office. The shutdown cost around 400 jobs from the tech giant's workforce.
The large number of job cuts the company has been and will be doing isn't the only thing that has made headlines. Two employees from the company's online safety team are currently suing the tech giant.
As part of the safety team, the employees were tasked with going over different media that involved child pornography, murder, and bestiality, among others and to decide whether the content should be taken down or passed on to authorities. The employees alleged that the Redmond-based tech giant had failed to discuss the nature of their task and to provide psychological support.
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