India, May 13 -- Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) Tuesday reportedly said that it will cut 6,000 workers across all levels, teams and geographies, in an effort to reduce management layers.
"We continue to implement organizational changes necessary to best position the company for success in a dynamic marketplace," a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement to CNBC.
The planned terminations will amount to less than 3% of total headcount, the spokesperson said. They will occur across geographies, employee levels and include LinkedIn, the spokesperson added.
Microsoft had 228,000 employees in June 2024. The company laid off 10,000 people in January 2023, including personnel at the HoloLens augmented reality headset unit and other hardware projects....