Microsoft’s announcement that it will cut 10,000 jobs before the end of the year reverberated across the tech industry Wednesday, even during a period when large layoffs in the sector have become almost routine.
But it will apparently have little effect in the Bay Area, at least for now, according to a report the company filed with the state’s Employment Development Department that shows only 46 jobs will be cut statewide.
The company counts local offices in San Francisco and Berkeley, but all of the layoffs it reported will be in Microsoft’s Silicon Valley offices. The company said in the filing it plans to cut 37 jobs at its Mountain View and Santa Clara offices, as well as nine remote positions based in the region.
Affected job titles ranged from those in applied sciences, hardware and electrical engineering, software engineers and recruiters.
Asked for comment Wednesday, the company did not address questions about the layoffs and instead sent a link to a blog post where company CEO Satya Nadella announced the layoffs.
The company also declined to comment on whether it planned to sublease or close any of its Bay Area offices, including its San Francisco location at 555 California St.
In the blog post, Nadella said the cuts, which amount to around 5% of the company’s global workforce, would be completed before the end of the third fiscal quarter this year and that affected employees would be given 60 days notice, which is also required by law.
That left open the possibility that more jobs could be cut across the Bay Area’s offices as the year wears on.
The Washington State-based company is not the first large tech company to announce sizable layoffs in recent weeks.
Salesforce, San Francisco’s largest private employer, said earlier this month it would slash 8,000 jobs, about 10% of its workforce, amidst a global economic slowdown and looming fears of a recession.
Salesforce and other tech companies that brought on hundreds or thousands of employees during the pandemic have said the current cuts amount to a rebalancing after bringing on more talent during the highly competitive labor market of the last few years.
Online retail giant Amazon also said late last year that it planned to cut 10,000 workers.
Some economists have pointed out that even after the recent cuts, many large companies have more employees than they did before the onset of the pandemic in 2020.
Chase DiFeliciantonio is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: chase.difeliciantonio@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @ChaseDiFelice
