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Microsoft lays off employees in new round of cuts – GeekWire
July 4, 2024 - by Taylor Soper on Jul 3, 2024 at 12:32 pmJuly 3, 2024 at 8:30 pm ... The Microsoft campus in Redmond, Wash. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft conducted another round of layoffs this week in the latest workforce reduction implemented by the Redmond tech giant this year.
CRN
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More Microsoft Layoffs As Vendor Starts 2024 Fiscal Year | CRN
A review of LinkedIn posts by Microsoft workers who said they were caught up in the layoffs reveals that some of the eliminated jobs include solutions associates, direct sales associates, program managers and success managers.
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Microsoft Initiates Fresh Round of Layoffs to Streamline Workforce - Spiceworks
July 8, 2024 - Microsoft initiated a fresh round of layoffs this week in an ongoing effort to “streamline its workforce.” The exact number of layoffs is undisclosed. However, they have undoubtedly affected various geographical locations and teams.
The HR Digest
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Microsoft Layoffs Ensue: The Trend of Job Cuts Persists Into 2024
January 31, 2024 - The company is also closing its work on the Blizzard survival game that has been in the works for over six years, moving employees to other active projects, so this is quite certainly a time for change with the Microsoft teams. The job market remains unstable one month into 2024 and while workers have hoped that the trend of layoffs will slow down this year, it doesn’t seem likely so far.
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Sources Predict Significant Microsoft Layoffs in 2025 - US Cloud
April 1, 2025 - While reasons for why layoffs happen naturally vary, one common reason for large swaths of layoffs typically has to do with resource allocation. If a business realizes they must move funds or jobs to different initiatives, for example, restructuring could occur. Sources such as R&D World announced findings that AI drove significant restructuring across technology sectors, specifically noting that Microsoft’s Azure team cuts in 2024 were enacted while sustaining an AI development focus.
SiliconANGLE
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Fresh Microsoft layoffs reportedly hit project management roles - SiliconANGLE
August 1, 2024 - Posts on LinkedIn from affected employees show that the layoffs have hit those in product and program management roles. Officially, Microsoft has not announced a new round of layoffs.
India Today
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Tech layoffs continue: Big tech companies like Apple, Microsoft fired hundreds of employees in August 2024 - India Today
August 30, 2024 - According to independent layoffs tracker Layoffs.fyi, as of August 30, 2024, 422 tech companies have laid off 136,782 employees. It's not just small firms but also big tech giants like Apple, Microsoft, and Google that have continued reducing ...
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Microsoft Layoffs 2024: What to Know as MSFT Enacts More Job Cuts | InvestorPlace
September 19, 2024 - According to the latest reports, the Microsoft layoffs included workers in its product and program management departments. This comes after the end of the company’s fiscal year on June 30. It makes sense that Microsoft would enter a new fiscal year with layoffs.
The Hindu
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Tech layoffs 2024: Job cuts at Microsoft, Google, Apple, and other firms - The Hindu
August 28, 2024 - According to the tracker Layoffs.fyi, tech companies have laid off more than 124,000 employees as of August 20, 2024, taking the overall tally of layoffs since 2022 to 428,449. A combination of factors including cost cutting to invest in the ...
Reddit
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r/microsoft on Reddit: The primary causes of Microsoft layoffs
July 10, 2025 -
Too much hiring during Covid
overspending on purchasing game studios
investing into AI infrastructure with nothing in return
reducing American workers, hiring offshore workers
moving from personal growth model to make profit fast model
Microsoft leadership has lost focus
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IMO the key reason is culture change being driven at the top. Satya has been hiring a bunch of external talent who have brought in their culture. Jay Parikh from Meta, the COO from Walmart, Charlie Bell from Amazon, Mustafa, Kevin Scott and the LinkedIn folks. It's just Scott and Rajesh in the SLT that are MSFT long-timers, no other internal promos. So Satya is counseled by people with different styles, often a very retail-like culture and that's leading to a bunch of good cultural attributes falling by the wayside when push comes to shove
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It's just greed/reduction at this point. They're firing qualified people left and right.
Business Insider
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The List of Layoffs Sweeping the US: Boeing, Meta, Google - Business Insider
December 24, 2024 - Last year's job cuts weren't the end of layoffs. Further reductions continue in 2024. Companies like Flagstar Bank, Meta, PwC, Tesla, Google, Microsoft, and Nike have all announced cuts.
CNBC
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Microsoft laying off about 9,000 employees in latest round of cuts
July 2, 2025 - In January, it cut less than 1% of headcount based on performance. The 50-year-old software company slashed more than 6,000 jobs in May and then at least 300 more in June. As of June 2024 it employed 228,000 people.
Reddit
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r/ArtificialInteligence on Reddit: What is the real explanation behind 15,000 layoffs at Microsoft?
July 6, 2025 -
I need help understanding this article on Inc.
https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/microsofts-xbox-ceo-just-explained-why-the-company-is-laying-off-9000-people-its-not-great/91209841
Between May and now Microsoft laid off 15,000 employees, stating, mainly, that the focus now is on AI. Some skeptics I’ve been talking to are telling me that this is just an excuse, that the layoffs are simply Microsoft hiding other reasons behind “AI First”. Can this be true? Can Microsoft be, say, having revenue/financial problems and is trying to disguise those behind the “AI First” discourse?
Are they outsourcing heavily? Or is it true that AI is taking over those 15,000 jobs? The Xbox business must demand a lot and a lot of programming (as must also be the case with most of Microsoft businesses. Are those programming and software design/engineering jobs being taken over by AI?
What I can’t fathom is the possibility that there were 15,000 redundant jobs at the company and that they are now directing the money for those paychecks to pay for AI infrastructure and won’t feel the loss of thee productivity those 15,00 jobs brought to the table unless someone (or something) else is doing it.
Any Microsoft people here can explain, please?
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Most likely because some person/s bonuses are tied to cost cutting or "productivity" targets that can be achieved through the lay-offs.
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https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/03/microsoft-lays-off-the-staff-who-make-the-money-to-fund-ai-that-doesnt/ Nadella is a true believer, and he is also wrong. They definitely aren't having revenue problems, but they want to throw so much money at AI that they have to make these layoffs to pay for building their Azure server farms. It's not that they think AI can replace those employees. It's that they think AI is going to make them so much money, it's worth cannibalising other parts of their business for in order to scale up the infrastructure as fast as possible.
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Microsoft Corp. Layoffs - TheLayoff.com
https://technode.com/2025/10/11/microsoft-reportedly-lays-off-shanghai-azure-staff-amid-ongoing-global-restructuring/ Reports: Microsoft Shanghai Layoffs Offer N+4 Severance, Relocation to Australia...
Information Week
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Major tech layoffs: An updated tracker
5 days ago - Microsoft said the layoffs will be across all levels, teams and geographies but the cuts focus on reducing the number of managers. The mass layoffs come weeks after Microsoft reported strong sales and profits that beat expectations for the ...
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Microsoft Layoffs 2025: Job Cuts & AI Hiring Signals
August 7, 2025 - Headquarters Reduction Redmond, Washington ceased to be a multifunctional engineering center. From March 2024 to August 2025, Redmond experienced over 60% reduction in old job roles.
CBS News
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Microsoft to lay off 6,000 employees in cost-cutting move - CBS News
May 13, 2025 - Microsoft on Tuesday said it's cutting 3% of its workforce across the board. The layoffs are expected to impact all levels and geographies, but will focus on reducing management levels, the company said in a statement.
Business Standard
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Tech layoffs 2024: IT companies lay off 100,000 employees till July 2024 | News - Business Standard
August 5, 2024 - The company intends to carry out most of the layoffs by the end of 2024 and will provide eligible employees with options for voluntary retirement or departure. In June, Microsoft reduced its workforce by around 1,000 employees in the mixed reality ...
Times of India
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Tech layoffs cross 100,000 in July 2024: Intel, Microsoft, Dyson, UKG and these companies cut thousands jobs - The Times of India
August 8, 2024 - The company plans to complete the majority of layoffs by the end of 2024 and will offer voluntary retirement and departure options to eligible employees. In June, Microsoft laid off around 1,000 employees across Mixed Reality and Azure 'moonshots' ...
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Microsoft announces up to 1,500 layoffs, leaked memo blames 'AI wave' | Employee Experience | HR Grapevine USA | News
April 3, 2025 - Many other big tech companies have also announced major layoffs in the past 18 months including Intel, Google, Salesforce, and Amazon. SMT has developed a reputation for innovation and cutting-edge projects including quantum computing. However, many with Azure products set to be halted, employees will either be re-assigned to the other cloud and AI product teams or will face being laid off. ... Other employees working on mixed reality products will also be laid off, Microsoft confirmed to CNBC on Monday.