Microsoft plans performance-based layoffs across company

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Microsoft plans to make a new round of layoffs across the company, impacting employees whose performance has been deemed to fall short of its standards.
Microsoft plans performance-based layoffs across the company
Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) is planning a round of performance-based layoffs, the company confirmed to the Business Journal Wednesday. A spokesperson for the Redmond-based tech giant declined to disclose how many people will be affected or to what extent the layoffs will impact its Puget Sound-region workforce.
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