Microsoft to Lay Off 3% of Employees - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 13 May 2025 / 4,020 Views
Microsoft announced it plans to lay off three percent of employees across all levels, teams, and geographies, according to CNBC.
"We continue to implement organizational changes necessary to best position the company for success in a dynamic marketplace," said a Microsoft spokesperson. One goal is to reduce the number of layers of management.
Microsoft had 228,000 employees at the end of June 2024, which means around 6,840 employees will be laid off if the company has the same number of workers.
This would be the largest round of layoffs at Microsoft since the company let go 10,000 people in January 2023.
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A company pushing it's AI ambitions, laying off employees...shocking.
It would have happened regardless. Corps do this all the time.
Especially right now. But companies will use stuff like tariffs as an excuse even though they regularly terminate jobs.
Had $69 billion for Activision though, burning a hole in their pocket
It was 75.4 Billions, when is M$ going to see that money back? How many Billions M$ will profit per year to get even? Never in a 100 years, and the only franchise that could be profitable was COD, and it's not doing well this last release.
You really don't think they could make that money back in 100 years? Lol. You probably thought Minecraft was a bad buy as well. Most of ABKs revenue and profit comes from the mobile side. Candy Crush is hugely popular.
has anyone seen Microsoft profits?
26 billion net income for Q3, 18% increase YOY. So of course when you've made that much money you need to make even more by firing 7000 people right???
Thats the real world for you.
Thank you for the most obvious reminder of all time.
Posting the obvious to a post that is being obvious
Ahh yes giving context to the users post about the financial success of Microsoft means you have to come in and provide us all with the golden knowledge that this is how things are, thank you great wise one.
Their financial result has nothing to do with reducing staff. It happens every year with majority or corporations. Its called staff rotation.
That "profif" is mostly from their OS, because XBox is not selling and their game division sucks! The only M$ game that is good is Flight Sim.
do you really believe Microsoft is not making a profit on its Xbox brand?
I'm a PlayStation fan, but I have to admit M$ is better than SONY at firing people, every time it's townsends! They are terrible at making consoles and good games, but they are one of the best companys in the world at firing people! They acquired a lot of software companys and started firing on those also.
My honest feeling is, if you work for one of these huge companies, save money and invest aggressively. Because it probably won't last.
