[Breitbart Texas] The Microsoft Corporation is expected to lay-off up to 3,000 employees as the tech conglomerate continues to request and hire more foreign help.In a new report following rumors of mass lay-offs at Microsoft, company executives confirmed that potentially 3,000 jobs from the sales department would be cut. Executives said employees working outside the U.S. would be the most impacted by the lay-offs, but did also confirm that about 25 percent of the lay-offs would impact employees working stateside.
A Microsoft spokesperson spun the mass lay-offs as simply "changes" to "better serve our customers and partners."
"Today, we are taking steps to notify some employees that their jobs are under consideration or that their positions will be eliminated," the Microsoft spokesperson told CNBC. "Like all companies, we evaluate our business on a regular basis. This can result in increased investment in some places and, from time-to-time, re-deployment in others."
Currently, Microsoft has more employees working outside the U.S., roughly 121,000, than those domestic, about 71,000.