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Iconic job-search platform LinkedIn is planning on gutting 606 California jobs in July, the majority of which will come from its Bay Area workforce.<\/p>

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The Microsoft-owned company announced new layoffs in a WARN notice filed Friday with the California Employment Development Department. The document, obtained by SFGATE, reveals LinkedIn is parting ways with 352 employees in Mountain View, 108 in San Francisco, 59 in Sunnyvale, 21 in Carpinteria and 66 remote workers living in California. In a memo to staff,\u00a0first reported by Business Insider, CEO Daniel Shapero announced LinkedIn would be \u201cscaling back investments\u201d and reducing roles in its global business organization, marketing, engineering and product sectors.<\/p><\/div>

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According to the company\u2019s WARN filing, of the 606 total cuts, at least 519 apply to Bay Area employees, largely those in engineering roles. It\u2019s similar to LinkedIn\u2019s last round of layoffs nearly a year ago, which eliminated 281 California employees, also mainly engineers.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>

In a statement sent to SFGATE on Tuesday, LinkedIn spokesperson Leonna Spilman referred to the layoffs as \u201corganizational changes\u201d to set the company up for \u201cfuture success.\u201d<\/p><\/div>

\u201cEconomic opportunity is one of the societal issues of our time, and LinkedIn has been and will continue to be the platform that professionals and companies turn to as they navigate the changing world of work,\u201d Shapero wrote in a May 13 memo to employees. \u201cFor us to meet this moment, we must ready ourselves to deliver a step change in impact across our products, businesses, and platforms, while continuing to operate more profitably.\u201d<\/p><\/div>

Notably, Shapero\u2019s memo made no mention of artificial intelligence being a driver for the cuts, unlike other tech giants going through their own layoffs. However, further memos from other LinkedIn executives identify AI integration in their workflow as a main motivator for trimming the workforce.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>

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\u201cOur fastest moving teams are focused, have fewer layers, and leverage AI to move quickly,\u201d wrote LinkedIn Ecosystem Chief Product Officer Hari Srinivasan in a separate staffwide memo on May 13. \u201cThe changes we\u2019re making across our Product orgs are based on creating more agile teams in this model.\u201d<\/p>

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That would be consistent with parent company Microsoft\u2019s current direction. In a staffwide memo last month, Microsoft CFO Amy Hood credited significant Q3 earnings, including a 123% bump in AI revenue, to \u201ctighter, more accountable teams.\u201d<\/p><\/div>

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