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Microsoft Cuts 3,000 More Employees Marking The End Of Months Worth Of Layoffs

Oct 29, 2014 06:43 PM EDT | By Staff Reporter

Microsoft cut another 3,000 employees on Wednesday, which marks the end of a ton of layoffs for the company.

CEO Satya Nadella stated in the summer that around this time would be the end of a lot of layoffs.

In a statement to PCMag, a Microsoft spokesperson said the reductions are taking place across a variety of teams in many different countries, though there's no word as to which departments will be hit hardest.

"We've taken another step that will complete almost all the 18,000 reductions announced in July," the spokesperson told PCMag.

Wednesday's cuts followed two previous rounds of layoffs. Microsoft kicked things off in July, axing 13,000 in the first wave before cutting another 2,100 workers in September, according to PCMag.

GeekWire reported that about 638 of were in the Seattle area, for a total of 2,700 layoffs in Microsoft's home region, where the company employed some 42,500 people at the end of September.

In a July memo to employees, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, pictured, said the company would largely nix work on Android-based devices. "We plan to shift select Nokia X product designs to become Lumia products running Windows," he wrote. "This builds on our success in the affordable smartphone space and aligns with our focus on Windows Universal Apps."

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