Job cuts in Microsoft’s security, AI and other divisions
The job cuts, announced by the Washington State Employment Security Department, hit Microsoft’s security operations, as per a report by The Seattle Times. Reportedly, hundreds of employees faced cuts in security roles under Charlie Bell, who is the executive vice president, security, compliance, identity, and management at Microsoft
The latest layoffs “are part of the effort to align our cost structure with our revenue that was announced in January”, a Microsoft spokesperson was cited as saying.
Tech firms based or with operations in Washington have announced more than 32,000 job cuts till date, news agency IANS reported.
Job cuts at GitHub India
As a part of this process, the company has laid off its entire engineering team in India. The open source developer platform’s India centre is the second largest developer community after the US.
Microsoft-owned GitHub also announced that it will lay off 10% of its workforce by the end of this fiscal year. At the time of announcement, GitHub had about 3,000 employees, and a reduction of 10% means about 300 employees will be fired from the company.
Earlier this month, Microsoft conducted a round of job cuts in its supply chain, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) divisions.
Previously, 617 employees in Redmond, Bellevue, and Issaquah were let go. Multiple teams, including Surface devices, HoloLens mixed reality hardware and gaming (Xbox) were hit at that time.
Last month, The Information reported that Microsoft fired its entire Industrial Metaverse team, which was formed four months ago to accelerate the adoption of Microsoft’s mixed reality headset among enterprise customers.
