Microsoft lays off hundreds of employees this week, largely in Redmond, London
Microsoft is continuing to follow through with the 2,850 additional job cuts company officials announced back in July that they'd be making during fiscal 2017.
The latest round of cuts, which happened this past week, affected both Redmond and London (as well as some other geographies).
The Financial Times reported on September 16 that Microsoft is planning to shut down Skype's London offices. A Microsoft spokesperson with whom I spoke today characterized the London cuts as a consolidation of some engineering positions that affected both Skype and Yammer. The spokesperson said about 220 jobs would be eliminated as a result.
