In July this year, we brought you word on how Microsoft intends to shed their workforce by 18,000 jobs before the end of next year, which is not good news at all – especially when you take into consideration how the economy is not doing all that great for everyone at all in recent times. Just last month, Microsoft moved to release 2,100 of their employees, and this time around, we have word that yet another round of layoffs has occurred – and this time it will impact approximately 3,000 employees.
Apparently, majority of the layoffs targeted support staff. Regardless, being made redundant in a company is definitely not a good experience at all, so hopefully those who were let go would have sufficient savings to tide them over until they begin on a new enterprise or obtain a new job to help them manage their daily expenses. Eventually, when all of the intended 18,000 job cuts are completed, it ought to cost the company somewhere in the region of $1.1 billion to $1.6 billion.
Job cuts are never an easy thing to do, especially when you take into consideration how there is the human element in it. However, in this day and age, they are deemed to be a necessary evil for companies, more so those that are the size of Microsoft, in order to help streamline its operations while reducing the overall overhead costs.
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