Microsoft Wants to Cut 60 Thousand Employees, a Quarter of the Workforce: "Sold to Invest in AI"
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Sixty thousand employees, that is a quarter of the workforce, to be expelled to four countries to lower the fixed costs and have money available for investments in artificial intelligence. It is the plan presented by Microsoft that intends to intervene heavily on its occupational structure in the USA, Canada, India and Great Britain to relieve the pressure on its finances [...] The article Microsoft wants to cut 60 thousand employees, a quarter …
The measure could affect up to 60,000 employees in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and India.
The aim is to reduce costs in order to devote resources to artificial intelligence. The voluntary incentive scheme involves workers from four countries.
Because Microsoft reduces staff: it aims to push hard on AI, data center and cloud. An increasingly widespread trend among Big Tech
This represents about a quarter of its workforce and comes amid efforts to cut costs as the tech giant invests billions of dollars in artificial intelligence (AI).
With their eyes on its growth and profitability curve, Microsoft has just announced a pseudo-dismissal plan that might well see up to a quarter of its strength leaving before the end of the year. A first.
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