Microsoft is cutting less than 3% of its global workforce, including at LinkedIn. The company employed an estimated 228,000 workers as of last June, meaning the layoffs will affect approximately ...

LinkedIn notified its employees about the layoffs on May 13. Workers posted about their pink slips on the social network, letting hiring managers and recruiters know that they were open to work.

LinkedIn’s California layoffs affected workers at its offices in San Francisco, Mountain View, Carpinteria and Sunnyvale. More than half of those cuts hit its workforce in Mountain View.

LinkedIn, the Bay Area social networking company for professionals, is laying off 281 workers in California, per a WARN filing. The cuts include many engineers.

The LinkedIn layoffs follow job cuts earlier this month at the job-seeking platform’s parent company, Microsoft. Earlier this month, Microsoft laid off 86 employees across several Bay Area offices.

Without products to sell in stores, retail employers (responsible for 10% of all jobs in the U.S.) will shed employees, a cascade of negatives now showing up in both statistics and "for lease" signs.