The latest cuts come after the company announced earlier this year that it was eliminating some 18,000 positions as part of a major cost-cutting bid at the e-commerce giant.
The job cuts will stem from Kyndryl Holdings, the IT services business that IBM spun off last year, and its healthcare divestiture, from which the company will incur about a USD 300 million charge, a spokesman told WSJ.
"The President has said this many times, he's going to do everything that he can to make sure this is an economy that works for everyone, that works from the bottom up and middle out. And that's what you've seen from his economic plans," Pierre said during a press conference.
Microsoft Corporation will lay off approximately 10,000 employees by the end of the third fiscal quarter of 2023 in response to macroeconomic conditions and changing customer priorities
Microsoft is under pressure to maintain growth rates at its cloud unit Azure, after several quarters of the downturn in the personal computer market hurt Windows and devices sales.
The new performance management system, once implemented early next year, could make way for human resource managers to push thousands of underperforming Google employees, multiple news reports quoted technology-focused publication The Information.
Amazon enters the ongoing trend of mass layoffs as the online shopping platform has planned to cut down jobs of around 10, 000 employees this week, as per several media reports. However, the exact number of job cuts still remains unknown.
Zuckerberg appeared downcast in Tuesday's meeting and said he was accountable for the company's missteps. His over-optimism about growth had led to overstaffing.
Washington [US], May 5 (ANI/Sputnik): Job cuts in the United States rose for a second month in a row in April as employers assessed costs and the growing risk of inflation in a labor market that has mostly seen record demand for workers over the past year, employment tracker Challenger, Gray
Beijing [China], March 21 (ANI): China's tech crackdown has adversely affected the jobs market amid economic headwinds laden with stories about frozen headcounts and lay-offs.