Microsoft today announced plans to reduce its global workforce by 3 %. The company is considered to be around 228,000 last June with the recently available Head County, which translates into 6,840 firing.
The latest kit follows about 10,000 10,000 strong paras in 2023 and is a small firing in January this year. The latter yesterday was called “performance” by Microsoft.
Microsoft said in January, “When people are not performing, we take proper action.” However, the company told CNBC that the latest 3 % reduction would not be based on performance.
To some extent, Microsoft has reported more than $ 25.8 billion expected profits in the recent quarter after the move. However, the figures cover the period that predicts the uncertainty that escapes from the Trump administration’s ongoing tariff.
Microsoft says efforts to reduce layers of deductions are partially. But beyond, it is difficult to know what is motivated by hedging against tariff -powered misery.
This is not the first time we have talked about people who fired Microsoft, as in April this year we covered the shootings of employees, who publicly protested publicly to supply AI -tech to the Israeli army. This is one of the main reasons for Microsoft’s presence in the boycott list in boycott, division and restrictions (BDS).
This is all after a serious period for Microsoft’s late gaming business. Last year, nearly 2,600 staff members were lost in Microsoft’s Xbox Division and its newly acquired Activation Blazard, which was part of a wider downturn for the sports industry.
The Games Industry holiday estimates that tracker estimates that 2024 have 14,600 losses of employmentAfter 10,500 in 2023. Currently there is 2,200 for a total of 2025, which seems like all kinds of progress, if hardly any assurance is made for anyone who has lost his role.
Microsoft Stock is currently trading at a height for 2025, though it is at its peak in July last year. Therefore, the company is overall healthy and the time of writing is The world’s most valuable company whose gross market capitalization is just over 3.3 trillion. But it seems that these workers have to hold.
