SAN FRANCISCO (Diya TV) — Some of the country’s top chief executives go to bed at night with the worry they’ll be woken with a 6 a.m. tweet from President-elect Donald Trump that they’re not doing enough to keep jobs in the U.S.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, however, is content that Microsoft is already doing enough in this category.
“We’re a U.S.-based company that operates worldwide and our predominant employment is in the United States,” Nadella said at the DLD tech conference in Munich on Monday. “We’ve already created a tremendous amount of high-paying jobs in the U.S.”
Microsoft employs more than 100,000 people worldwide, more than 60,000 of whom work in the United States currently. Most of those work at the company’s corporate headquarters in Washington state, according to Microsoft numbers.
Regardless, in the wake of Trump’s presidential victory, companies are eager to play up the amount of Americans they employ. Companies such as Amazon have made very public announcements about jobs they expect to add to their workforce, with messaging that seems to be in direct response to the billionaire real estate mogul’s win.
Nadella says Trump’s win hasn’t impacted the way Microsoft does business.
“If anything, we’ll double down on what we’ve always done, which is be a U.S. company that operates in the United States very responsibly, but also being a multinational company that contributes into every country that we work in.”
