In a January memo, McDonald's President and CEO Chris Kempczinskiwarned about upcoming job cuts and said the company would begin to communicate key decisions by April 3.
The company said in the memo that the layoffs are intended to make McDonald's more efficient.
"We have a clear opportunity ahead of us to get faster and more effective at solving problems for our customers and people and to globally scale our successful market innovations at speed," the company said.
McDonald's declined to comment on the memo or the layoffs on Monday. The memo was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
Most of those job cuts are at corporate offices. There are still shortages of workers to fill service jobs, such as those at McDonald's restaurants.