Therefore,
Microsoft intends dismiss thousands additional:
The Microsoft web giant is preparing to dismiss some 9. In addition, 000 people in a second wave of job suppression this year. In addition, This represents less than 4 % of its workforce, whose figure is around 228,000, according to a company spokesperson.
Among the teams affected by these layoffs. Consequently, there are sales and Xboxes, its video game division which had already undergone the same fate in 2024. Therefore, People around the world are affected, according to the company.
We continue to make organizational changes necessary for the favorable positioning of the company. its teams in an evolving market context
said the spokesperson.
In mid-May. the group of Redmond had already revealed his wish to get rid of Less than 3 %
Members of its staff, or around 6000 people.
We gain agility by reducing the ladder [hiérarchiques]..
The AI showed the finger – Microsoft intends dismiss thousands additional
Many make the link between this weight loss treatment. the deployment of artificial intelligence (IA) within the company, among the most advanced in this area.
At the end of April. Microsoft’s managing director Satya Nadella had revealed that from 20 to 30 % of the internal programming code was now written by theIA.
Sam Altman and the CEO of Microsoft Satya Nadella, on November 6, 2023, at a conference. (Archives photo)
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Asked about the effect of artificial intelligence on its workforce. the group did not follow up immediately.
Microsoft simply talks about minimize duplicates by refining [ses] process, [ses] products, [ses] procedures and [ses] functions
.
We will allow employees to spend more time with useful tasks thanks to the deployment of new technologies. features.
Early 2023. the company Redmond had dismissed around 10,000 people, a decision presented as the result of a counter coupling in the acceleration of IT expenses during the Pandemic of COVID-19.
However. the company had continued to increase its workforce, with a record of 228,000 employees in 2024, up 63 % compared to the total of 2019, just before the pandemic.
With agency information from France-Presse and the Canadian press
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