• Microsoft, which is cutting 3% of its headcount, had 228,000 employees as of last June.
• The maker of Windows and Word is aiming to reduce management layers.

on Tuesday said that it's laying off 3% of employees across all levels, teams and geographies, affecting about 6,000 people.

"We continue to implement organizational changes necessary to best position the company for success in a dynamic marketplace," a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement to C온라인카지노사이트.

The company reported better-than-expected results, with $25.8 billion in quarterly net income, and an in late April.

Microsoft had 228,000 employees worldwide at the end of June.

It's likely Microsoft's largest round of layoffs since the elimination of in 2023. In January the company announced a small round of layoffs that were . These new job cuts are not related to performance, the spokesperson said.

One objective is to reduce layers of management, the spokesperson said. In January announced that it was getting rid of some employees after noticing in its organization.

Last week cybersecurity software provider announced it would of its workforce.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told analysts in January that the company would make sales execution changes after the company delivered slower growth than expected in Azure cloud revenue that wasn't tied to artificial intelligence. Performance in AI cloud growth outdid internal projections.

"How do you really tweak the incentives, go-to-market?" Nadella said. "At a time of platform shifts, you kind of want to make sure you lean into even the new design wins, and you just don't keep doing the stuff that you did in the previous generation."

On Monday, Microsoft shares ended trading at $449.26, the highest price so far this year. They closed at a record $467.56 last July.

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