After cutting 10,000 jobs at the beginning of the year, Microsoft launched a new round of layoffs.

CTOnews.com July 11 news, in January this year, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella (Satya Nadella) announced that the company will cut 10, 000 jobs. At the time, that figure affected less than 5% of Microsoft's workforce. Nadella said the job cuts would be completed by the end of March.

However, Microsoft now says it has begun a new round of layoffs. According to GeekWire, a number of employees changed their profiles on LinkedIn today, indicating that they are among the new round of layoffs, mainly affecting sales, marketing and customer support departments.

In a statement sent to GeekWire, a Microsoft spokesman for Tuyuan Pexels confirmed a new round of layoffs:

Organizational and labor force adjustment is a necessary and regular part of our business management. We will continue to give priority to investing in strategic growth areas to support the future of our customers and partners.

In fact, Microsoft's financial position in 2023 is relatively good, with its share price up 40.74% in the past six months. This is partly because the company has made repeated bets on the generative AI business.

This year, the prices of other companies have also risen sharply due to the influence of artificial intelligence. For example, the share price of Nvidia has risen 194.61% in 2023, an all-time high.

In the third quarter of the fiscal year ending March 31, 2023, Microsoft's net profit reached $18.3 billion (CTOnews.com Note: currently about 132.309 billion yuan), up 9% from a year earlier, and Microsoft will announce its fourth-quarter results at the end of July.