Microsoft is firing 3% of its staff, totalling just under 7,000 employees

Microsoft announced plans today to cut 3% of its global workforce. With the most recent available headcount for the company thought to be around 228,000 last June, that translates into 6,840 firings.

This latest cut follows a roughly 10,000-strong purge back in 2023 and a smaller round of firings in January this year. That latter cull was said by Microsoft to be "performance" based.

"When people are not performing, we take the appropriate action,” Microsoft said in January. However...