Microsoft announced they would be laying off an additional 559 employees working in Bellevue or Redmond, according to Washington state's Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN.)
This is the fourth round of cuts in the company and brings the total number of Microsoft layoffs in Washington to over 2,700 jobs cut since January. Earlier this month, 617 employees were cut from Microsoft in a round of layoffs.
This follows the trend in the tech sector with other major employers, like Meta, Amazon, and Google, cutting hundreds of jobs,two weeks ago that the tech giant would be laying off an additional 9,000 employees after laying off 18,000 already this year.
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