Microsoft lays off more than 300 employees in additional job cuts: Report

Microsoft lays off over 300 employees in new round of job cuts, according to The Verge, which stated that a notice from the Worker adjustment and retraining notification (WARN) in Washington showed 305 employees were laid off on June 2. 

A company spokesperson responded to a report from GeekWire confirming that they were continuing to make organisational changes to “best position the company for success in a dynamic marketplace,” post the layoffs which affected around 3% of their workforce last month.

Microsoft has not commented on whether these cuts were a result of deploying AI. 

The Satya Nadella-led company aims to reduce “unnecessary” layers of management impacting the middle management mostly. 

The total layoffs in just Washington would now come up to approximately 2,300 in the recent past for Microsoft. The company is headquartered out of Redmond in the state.