Zatimco Microsoft in recent months, the company has invested tens of billions of dollars in its development and in the construction of mass infrastructure, and has now announced a new wave of significant layoffs. About 6,000 people should lose their jobs in all divisions, including the popular Xbox game platform and the LinkedIn professional network.
According to the official press release of the company, layoffs will receive around 3% of employees. Ancs, most of the cuts affecting management positions. In other words, Microsoft tries to rationalize its organizational structure and become more agile in a “dynamic market”, as a company spokesperson described. Financial director Amy Hood added that the objective is to “reduce the number of management levels” and make decisions more quickly. It is clear that currently each decision must take a long time for such a colossus, because it must go through many “layers” which will comment on it and adjust it accordingly.
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What is interesting, however, is that these layoffs occur at a time when the technology giant does not hide the fact that in certain projects, up to 30 % of the code is written by tools fueled by artificial intelligence. Integency. CEO Satya Nadella said in the spring that AI completely changed our way of working throughout the business, from development to internal processes. It is therefore possible that Microsoft now, it simply harvested the fruits it has grown in recent months and recent years. After all, this year only Microsoft has invested more than $ 80 billion in AI infrastructure. The question is therefore: how many additional human jobs will be victims of the rapid development of technologies that not only help, but more and more replace the work of real people?
These layoffs have been the largest since 2023, when the company has suppressed 10,000 jobs as part of post-pandemic growth adjustments. This time, however, these are not budget cuts due to the crisis, but to adapt to a new reality in which AI becomes not only aid, but also a competitor. However, it should be added at once in the case of layoffs, Microsoft He has never been too afraid and the question is therefore to what extent his steps can be perceived as an emerging trend.
