An imposing scissor from Microsoftwhich announced a substantial Places cuttingin an attempt to improve its operating performance and concentrate his efforts and investments on the promising artificial intelligence business. The Redmond giant announced that will reduce the staff of about 6,000 units In all divisions, including LinkedIn, e In every part of the world. A decision that follows the layoffs already announced by Google, Amazon and Meta.
A 3% cut of the workforce
The American big name, with 6,000 less positions, cut less than 3% of his workforcein an attempt to contain costs and recover resources from invest in artificial intelligence.
The company, which in June last year It counted 228,000 employeesresorts to layoffs regularly to give priority to the areas of greatest interest, in this case the global challenge is on AI. “We continue to implement the organizational changes necessary to better position the company and be successful in a dynamic market,” said a Microsoft spokesman.
The cuts will affect all levels and geographical areas And they are probably the most large since Microsoft fired 10,000 employees in 2023. The company has fired a small number of employees in January for performance problems, but the new cuts are not related to this first cut of staff.
The expensive development of the AI
The big tech have invested a lot in artificial intelligence, an important growth engine in this new era, and are trying to Reduce the costs to safeguard the profit margins.
Microsofta few weeks ago, on the occasion of the results of the quarter, he confirmed one growth higher than expectations For his Azure Cloud Computing activity and results above the expectations, placulating the concerns of investors, but the cost of the development of artificial intelligence has weighed on profitabilityreducing Microsoft Cloud margins to 69% from 72% of a year ago.
The Redmond giant has put 80 billion dollars on investments for the tax year on the plate, largely intended for the expansion of the data centers, necessary to reduce the bottlenecks related to artificial intelligence services.
Layoffs also in the Amazon house, Meta and Google
Also Google has fired hundreds of employees in the last year, in an attempt to control costs and give priority to artificial intelligence
At the beginning of the year, Half (Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp) announced that he would send 3,600 employees at 72,400 at home at home, equal to a 5% cut of the workforce.
And the same happened to Amazonhe announced that hundreds of employees engaged in the first video and Amazon MGM Studios staff in America announces at home and beyond, DPO has cut over 27 thousand positions a year.
