{"id":232669,"date":"2025-07-02T18:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T18:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/232669\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T18:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T18:33:09","slug":"microsoft-will-lay-off-thousands-more-in-second-round-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/232669\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft will lay off thousands more in second round this year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft is firing thousands of workers, its second mass layoff<\/a> in months.<\/p>\n

The tech giant began sending out layoff notices Wednesday. Microsoft told Washington state officials that it will lay off 830 workers in the Seattle area and in remote positions beginning Aug. 31. <\/p>\n

The company declined to say how many people would be laid off but said that it will comprise less than 4% of the workforce it had a year ago.<\/p>\n

Microsoft said the cuts will affect multiple teams around the world, including its sales division and its Xbox video game business.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe continue to implement organizational changes necessary to best position the company and teams for success in a dynamic marketplace,\u201d it said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Microsoft employed 228,000 full-time workers as of last June, the last time it reported its annual headcount. The company said Wednesday that its latest layoffs would cut close to 4% of that workforce, which would be about 9,000 people. But it has already had at least three layoffs this year.<\/p>\n

Until now, the biggest was in May, when Microsoft began laying off about 6,000 workers, nearly 3% of its global workforce and its largest job cuts in more than two years as the company spent heavily on artificial intelligence<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Microsoft also cut another 300 workers based out of its Redmond, Washington headquarters in June, on top of nearly 2,000 who lost their jobs in the Puget Sound region in May, according to notices it sent to Washington state employment officials.<\/p>\n

The layoffs announced in May were heavily focused on people in software engineering and product management roles, according to lists the company sent to employment agencies in Washington and California \u2014 where the cuts also hit Microsoft offices in the San Francisco Bay Area.<\/p>\n

Microsoft\u2019s chief financial officer Amy Hood said on an April earnings call that the company was focused on \u201cbuilding high-performing teams and increasing our agility by reducing layers with fewer managers.\u201d<\/p>\n

The company has repeatedly characterized its recent layoffs as part of a push to trim management layers, but the May focus on software engineering jobs has fueled worries about how the company\u2019s own AI code-writing products could reduce the number of people need for programming jobs.<\/p>\n

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said earlier this year that \u201cmaybe 20, 30% of the code\u201d for some of Microsoft\u2019s coding projects \u201care probably all written by software.\u201d<\/p>\n

— The Associated Press<\/p>\n

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