San Francisco -based design software giant Autodesk Inc. has announced its plans to shut down around 1,350 employees. The company, known for the software used in architecture, engineering and construction, said that steps towards reducing the number of employees are part of a comprehensive restructuring effort. This is to improve efficiency and real resources towards artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing initiatives. These job cuts will allegedly affect 9 percent of the global workforce of Autodesk.

In a memorandum for employees, Autodek CEO Andrew Annagost clarified that the decision to reduce the workforce was internal and is not affected by any external pressure. “This decision was made by himself and the CEO employees and not the result of any third-party pressure,” Anaganost said. “We understood the need to run more efficiency from long and focus after implementation of new purchase experience, and we were always going to work freely on that need.”

Reorganization plans in the company are also among the company’s infection for the rollout of membership-based models and its new purchase experience. The purpose of this change is to simplify customer interactions and improve billing processes. “These changes are in a position to better meet the developments of our customers and channel partners,” Anagnost said.

However, he further admitted that the change of the company’s Go-to-Market Organization required difficult decisions to ensure long-term development and competition. And so, the company plans to cut the employee’s count.

In particular, the autoodek will also include a decrease in the feature in the sorting, although the company confirmed that it would not shut down any office. By January 2024, the company allegedly appointed 14,100 people globally, making it one of some major technical firms to avoid significant workforce cuts in recent years.

Tech retrenchment continues in 2025

Autodesk is not the only tech firm to continue with the tendency of trimmed. In fact, so far this year, 13,802 tech employees have been discontinued by 59 tech companies, Laeoffs.Fyi reports.

Earlier this year, Meta announced a plan to cut its workforce 5 percent on the basis of performance. Sorting will affect the employees performing less in the teams of Meta for the management of Facebook, Horizon VR and Logistics. Sorting will add to the list of employees who have lost their jobs in Meta since 2022.

Similar to the meta, Microsoft also announced a performance-based job cut in January. Although the company did not disclose the exact number of the affected employees, it was discovered that job cuts would be taking place in gaming, sales and other divisions.

After joining the sorting race, Google announced more job cuts in its human relations and cloud divisions, and PC manufacturer HP revealed a plan to cut between 1,000 and 2,000 jobs, which represents less than 4 percent of its total workforce.