Satya Nadella seeks to reassure Microsoft employees in layoffs memo

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. | Image: Getty Images

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella didn’t send a company-wide memo when the software maker laid off as many as 9,000 employees earlier this month. Now, Nadella is finally addressing what’s on many Microsoft employees’ minds: layoffs.

“I want to speak to what’s been weighing heavily on me, and what I know many of you are thinking about: the recent job eliminations,” says Nadella in a memo to all Microsoft employees today. “These decisions are among the most difficult we have to make.