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Here's a rundown of tech companies that have announced layoffs in 2022
November 10, 2022 - In a statement to employees the ... stock is down 58% this year. In October, Microsoft confirmed that it let go of less than 1% of employees....
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What is the real explanation behind 15,000 layoffs at Microsoft?
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July 6, 2025Microsoft Layoffs & Toxic Management: A Dangerous Culture Behind the Scenes
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July 1, 2025It seems even Microsoft is laying people off. Are we at post-pandemic layoffs round 2?
Microsoft is always laying people off. It's many small layoffs but they also have many hiring bursts More on reddit.com
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September 18, 2024The primary causes of Microsoft layoffs
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Microsoft Layoffs: 20,000+ Jobs Lost in 4 Years
July 17, 2025 - In this article, we break down ... is headed next. From 2022 through 2025, Microsoft eliminated an estimated 20,000 to 22,000 jobs across the company....
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Layoffs and more... HR Trends and News – November 2022
... CNBC reported in its article that Microsoft's layoffs will affect less than 1% of its 180,000 employees, three months after the Redmond, Wash.-based tech company announced another 1% reduction in its workforce, with the layoffs occurring ...
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Wikipedia
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2022–2025 video game industry layoffs
3 days ago - Further layoffs were announced by the company in February 2025. The scope of these are also unknown but it includes the entire Behaviour team. Microsoft also pursued a strong acquisition strategy in the early 2020s, including a $68.7 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard.
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Reports of coming layoffs swirl at Microsoft as workers ...
June 25, 2025 - Read all the latest news about Microsoft from The Seattle Times business staff.
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New numbers show Microsoft shed more than 16,000 jobs in nine months – GeekWire
October 25, 2023 - Microsoft announced 10,000 job cuts in January, about 5% of its workforce, as part of a wave of tech layoffs across the industry at the time. In July, following the close of its fiscal year, the company confirmed additional layoffs in customer ...
The Week
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The biggest tech layoffs of 2022 | The Week
November 30, 2022 - PC shipments also fell 13 percent in the third quarter of 2022 and overall growth has been the slowest in the last five years. "Like all companies, we evaluate our business priorities on a regular basis, and make structural adjustments accordingly," Microsoft told Axios. Streaming platform Roku announced a layoff of 7 percent of its staff, amounting to 200 people.
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Microsoft cuts about 1,000 jobs - Axios | Reuters
October 19, 2022 - REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Ilustration Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab · Oct 19 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O), opens new tab laid off under 1,000 employees across several divisions this week, Axios reported, opens new tab on Tuesday, ...
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Tech Companies That Have Made Layoffs from 2022 to 2026
February 27, 2023 - Alphabet/Google had been unique in that it didn’t make any major layoffs in 2022, whilst its competitors were making heavy cuts. Now it seems not even Google employees are safe. ... After persistent rumors, Microsoft announced 10,000 job losses ...
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Re: Meta layoffs analysis - November 2022 - Microsoft Fabric Community
August 1, 2023 - Observations: Recruiting was impacted the most, but Engineering isn't too far behind; together, these 2 departments comprise nearly 50% of all self-reported layoffs Engineering layoffs targeted mainly junior employees, whereas Product, Marketing, and Sales layoffs consisted mainly of senior employees The department that will need the most visa support is Engineering (46% of laid-off engineers will require visa support) Although Recruiting makes up the largest percentage of layoffs (26%), only 8% of them will require visa support
TIME
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AI Isn't to Blame for Microsoft, Tech Layoffs | TIME
January 19, 2023 - Meta cut 11,000 jobs in November; Amazon announced 18,000 layoffs in January; and Salesforce announced 8,000 more. These contractions can first be linked to tech’s pandemic-era expansion.
The Pragmatic Engineer
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The Scoop #36: Microsoft’s layoffs and its impact on the industry
January 19, 2023 - Microsoft’s layoffs. The tech giant announced eliminating 10,000 positions on Wednesday, which is about 5% of staff. The company made a $72B profit in 2022 - which is more than the revenue it had in 2011. So why does Microsoft need to do layoffs?
Daily Herald
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Layoffs are piling up, raising worker anxiety. Here are some companies that have cut jobs recently | News, Sports, Jobs - Daily Herald
November 21, 2025 - That’s down from 99,500 core employees reported the end of last year. The company previously announced a 15% workforce reduction. ... In May, Microsoft began laying off about 6,000 workers across its workforce.
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Charts Show the Real Impact of Meta, Google, Microsoft Layoffs - Business Insider
February 14, 2023 - Based on the available data, we ... of 2022. A likely factor in keeping its headcount relatively high is because it needs plenty of engineering talent as it ramps up its AI business to take on the newfound threat of Microsoft and OpenAI. Meta's layoffs in November 2022, on the ...
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r/ArtificialInteligence on Reddit: What is the real explanation behind 15,000 layoffs at Microsoft?
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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 Layoffs Discussions - Blind
Stay up to date on Microsoft layoffs with real-time discussions from verified Microsoft employees on Blind. Topics include internal reactions, severance packages, impacted teams, and job search support. These discussions were last updated on November 24, 2025.
San Francisco Chronicle
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Tech layoffs: S.F. Bay Area job cuts across Google, Microsoft and more
January 27, 2023 - In the past few months, almost a 100,000 tech workers have lost their jobs in a slew of layoffs from Bay Area-based tech companies, according to data compiled by Layoffs.FYI. since November 1.