In an ongoing effort to trim its workforce, Microsoft said as much as 4%, or roughly 9,000, of the company’s employees could be affected by Wednesday’s layoffs. In Washington, 830 employees were let go, according to a regulatory filing Wednesday.

Microsoft says it is laying off about 9,000 workers, its second mass layoff in months and its largest in more than two years.

Microsoft is laying off as much as 4%, or roughly 9,100, of its employees in the largest round of job cuts since 2023, the Seattle Times reported on Wednesday. The company, which had about 228,000 employees worldwide as of June 2024,