Microsoft employees are bracing for layoffs to be announced This week
Conferences rooms are being booked for short meetings with employees
By Julie Bort
Word among employees at Microsoft is that the layoffs that have been rumoured lately will begin on Thursday.
Conference rooms are booked and some employees are being scheduled for short 15-minute meetings with their managers, according to several postings on the anonymous chat app Blind that were shared with Business Insider.
Business Insider does not have access to Blind. Only verified employees at a company can access Blind. The app is popular at Microsoft; some 25,000 of the software giant’s employees use it, according to Blind.
Microsoft has not confirmed the layoff but the company did send an email to employees on Monday saying it plans to make wide-ranging changes to its sales organisation, GeekWire reported.
The employees who commented on Blind did not know how many total jobs would be cut. Not all of them who have meetings scheduled Thursday believe that they personally will be laid off. Some believe that they will be transferred to new roles within Microsoft.
TechCrunch reported last week that Microsoft is planning to lay off “thousands” of workers worldwide.
