LinkedIn, the professional social networking platform owned by Microsoft, said on Monday that it would cut about 668 jobs, or roughly 3 percent of its work force.
The cuts, which affect LinkedIn’s engineering, product, talent and finance teams, is the company’s second round of layoffs this year. In May, LinkedIn laid off 716 employees worldwide and said it was reducing its business in China, citing declining demand in an uncertain job market.
LinkedIn, which has 19,500 employees across 36 offices globally, did not detail the reasons for the job cuts on Monday. In a statement, the company said it was “streamlining our decision making” and that it would continue “to invest in strategic priorities.”
A LinkedIn spokeswoman declined to comment beyond the statement. In May, Ryan Roslansky, LinkedIn’s chief executive, said the company was seeing “shifts in customer behavior and slower revenue growth.”
Tech giants including Google, Meta, Amazon and Microsoft have trimmed back their work forces this year after hiring rapidly during the pandemic. In January, Microsoft cut 10,000 jobs, or less than 5 percent of its work force, to reduce costs and refocus on priorities like artificial intelligence. More than 200,000 tech employees have been laid off in 2023, according to the layoff tracker Layoffs.fyi.
In July, LinkedIn said its revenue for the three months that ended in June had grown 5 percent from a year earlier, with annual revenue surpassing $15 billion for the first time. The rise was driven by its recruiting business, according to Microsoft’s disclosures. LinkedIn has 950 million users, a number that has increased for eight consecutive quarters.
LinkedIn, like many tech companies, has been investing in artificial intelligence. This month, it announced a suite of A.I.-powered products to help with marketing, recruiting and sales.
