Microsoft just confirmed that it is making the next round of layoffs at the company today, notifying 2,100 additional employees that their positions at the company are being cut.

Of that total, 747 are in the Seattle region, according to a company spokesman.

The company says the cuts are being made globally, across roles and teams.

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The layoffs are part of Microsoft’s plan, announced in July, to eliminate 18,000 jobs around the world over the course of a year — a 14 percent reduction, representing the largest layoff in the company’s history. At the time of the original announcement, Microsoft cut 13,000 jobs, leaving 5,000 still to be cut. With the additional 2,100 cuts today, there are 2,900 to go.

Microsoft says it is on track to make the majority of the remaining cuts this calendar year, completing the layoffs by the end of Microsoft’s fiscal year next June.

This is part of new CEO Satya Nadella’s attempt to streamline the company’s engineering operations and management processes, as outlined in his original July memo announcing the cuts. He described the goal as having “fewer layers of management, both top down and sideways, to accelerate the flow of information and decision making.”

At the end of August, Microsoft had 43,900 employees in the Seattle area. It had 128,076 employees worldwide at the end of June, including positions added through the Nokia devices and services acquisition. (About 12,500 of those Nokia jobs are being cut as part of the 18,000 layoffs.)

Microsoft has also been taking steps to reduce its reliance on its large contract workforce.