Still, these cuts come after CEO Satya Nadella said last month that up to 30% of the company’s code was now written by AI . TechCrunch asked Microsoft if the layoffs were motivated by the rise of AI-assisted coding. The tech giant declined to comment. Microsoft has said the layoffs are aimed at reducing management layers.

Nearly 50% of the employee layoffs at Microsoft’s Washington office affected staff in software engineering roles, as the company has started to rely more on

Microsoft announces layoffs affecting 3% of its workforce while investing over $80 billion in AI infrastructure

More than 6,000 Voles to go Software King of the World, Microsoft is sharpening the axe again, swinging for three per cent of its global workforce to strip out middle managers and trim its flabby international operations.

Microsoft began laying off about 6,000 workers Tuesday, nearly 3% of its entire workforce and its largest job cuts in more than two years as the company spends heavily on artificial intelligence.

Australian staff at global tech giant Microsoft are nervously waiting to find out if they will be among about 90 staff likely to be sacked as part of worldwide cuts.

On Tuesday, Microsoft confirmed a CNBC report that it will be laying off three percent of its workforce. Given that the tech giant had around 228,000 employees as of June 2024 (per the news outlet), that amounts to roughly 6,