Microsoft announces 2,743 layoffs for employees in east King County

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REDMOND, Wash. - Microsoft will be laying off another round of hundreds of employees in Redmond, Bellevue and Issaquah, according to the state Employment Security Department (ESD).

ESD issues a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) alert when companies with 100 or more employees have layoffs or closures.

In this latest batch of layoffs, WARN says Microsoft will be letting go of 559 employees at the Redmond and Bellevue locations. 

Those layoffs will start May 26. 

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