At least 100 employees have been asked to consider the move amid a tech war between Beijing and the Western world.
Microsoft has asked at least 100 of its employees in China to consider moving to other countries, according to Chinese state media reports.
Microsoft employees, mostly involved with cloud computing, were recently offered the opportunity to work in the United States, Australia or Ireland, among other countries, state-run outlet The Paper said in a report yesterday, citing an unnamed source."Providing internal opportunities is a regular part of managing our global business. As part of this process, we shared an optional internal transfer opportunity with a subset of employees," a Microsoft spokesperson told CNN yesterday.
The company entered China in 1992 and for decades has counted on its well-known Beijing-based research lab, Microsoft Research Lab Asia, to help it build influence. The reports come in the same week President Joe Biden announced tariffs on $18 billion worth of imports of Chinese electric vehicles and an array of other products.The tech war between the two economic superpowers has been intensifying for years.
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