Employment and job-focused social media platform LinkedIn has laid off employees from its recruitment department, according to a report by the news website, The Information. This comes days after the LinkedIn owner Microsoft announced layoffs in its hardware divisions including HoloLens, Surface, and Xbox teams. The tech firm sacked 617 of its employees, Bloomberg reported. The Information report did not specify the number of employees impacted by the layoffs. In 2016, Microsoft acquired LinkedIn for $26.2 billion. This latest announcement adds LinkedIn to a list of tech firms that fired workers to cut costs.