Microsoft announces layoffs that will impact at least 6,000 employees

Microsoft is laying disconnected much than 6,000 employees, astir 3 percent of the company’s full workforce. These are the biggest occupation cuts astatine Microsoft since it laid disconnected 10,000 employees successful 2023, and volition interaction employees crossed Microsoft’s businesses.

“We proceed to instrumentality organizational changes indispensable to champion presumption the institution for occurrence successful a dynamic marketplace,” says Microsoft spokesperson Pete Wootton successful a connection to The Verge.

I recognize that the occupation cuts volition interaction each levels astatine Microsoft, including Microsoft-owned LinkedIn and immoderate planetary offices. The cuts travel conscionable weeks aft Microsoft CFO Amy Hood hinted astatine reducing the company’s absorption layers. “We proceed to absorption connected gathering high-performing teams and expanding our agility by reducing layers with less managers,” said Hood connected April 30th. Microsoft besides started ”performance-based” cuts earlier this year, which person targeted hundreds of employees.

The latest occupation losses travel much than a twelvemonth aft Microsoft laid disconnected 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees, and past successful May 2024 the company closed respective crippled studios, including Hi-Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks and Redfall developer Arkane Austin. Tango Gameworks aboriginal returned acknowledgment to a deal with Krafton.

Microsoft besides laid disconnected 650 much Xbox employees successful September, arsenic portion of a restructuring related to the company’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Microsoft besides cut astir 1,000 employees from its HoloLens and Azure unreality teams successful June.