News LinkedIn Cutting 716 Employees By Kurt Mackie05/10/2023 The LinkedIn careers site, owned by Microsoft, is laying off 716 employees, per a Monday announcement. LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky described the layoffs as a hard decision to address a rapidly changing business landscape. As part of the job cuts, the company is ending its Global Business Organization. The existing Product and Engineering teams at LinkedIn will be the company’s replacement for that organization. LinkedIn also is curtailing its business approach in China by eliminating its InCareer jobs app “by August 9, 2023.” Going forward, LinkedIn’s work in China will instead focus on “assisting companies operating in China to hire, market, and train abroad.” Despite the overall layoffs, LinkedIn still plans to hire “more than 250 new roles for specific segments of our operations, new business and account management teams starting on May 15.” This approach was described as “aligning our teams for growth.” The macroeconomic environment for LinkedIn’s fiscal-year 2024 is expected to “remain challenging,” Roslansky indicated, and so the company will “continue to manage our expenses as we invest in strategic growth areas.” Back in February, LinkedIn cut an undisclosed number of its talent acquisition team. That cut, as well
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