New Delhi: Over the past week, Microsoft reportedly reduced its workforce by 1000, mostly in sales and customer service teams.
The new layoffs are beyond the 10,000 jobs the tech giant planned to eliminate earlier this year, according to reports.
However, according to the source, Microsoft makes changes at the beginning of each new fiscal year, which began on July 1.
A sales and customer service team known as “Digital Sales and Success” has reportedly been shut by the company.
“The company also eliminated the customer solutions manager role, moving some, but not many, employees to another role called customer success account management,” the statement stated.
The job cuts also affected marketing department employees and engineering project managers.
Last week reports surfaced that the tech giant has laid off 276 employees, mostly in customer service, support and sales teams, in a new job cut round.
“Organisational and workforce adjustments are a necessary and regular part of managing our business,” a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement.
“We will continue to prioritise and invest in strategic growth areas for our future and in support of our customers and partners,” the spokesperson added.
Job layoffs that targeted customer support and sales jobs across teams were revealed in several posts on the leading professional networking platform LinkedIn.
Microsoft cut 158 jobs in Washington State in May, excluding the 10,000 positions that had been previously reported.
According to sources, the layoffs that were announced earlier this year affected more than 2700 employees in the Seattle-area.
Microsoft had more than 220,000 employees (as reported earlier this year).
