Microsoft Cuts 3% of Its Workforce, Affecting Thousands of Staff

Microsoft has confirmed cuts amounting to 3% of its full workforce.

CNBC reported that Microsoft had 228,000 employees arsenic of June 2024, and is aiming to trim absorption layers crossed each its teams. Approximately 6,000 employees are affected.

“We proceed to instrumentality organizational changes indispensable to champion presumption the institution for occurrence successful a dynamic marketplace,” a Microsoft spokesperson said successful a connection to CNBC.

IGN has asked Microsoft if the cuts impact its video crippled business.

In September 2024, Microsoft chopped a further 650 unit from its gaming concern aft 1,900 unit were chopped earlier that year. As portion of those cuts, Microsoft closed Hi-Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks and Redfall developer Arkane Austin. In full Microsoft fto spell of 2,550 unit from its gaming concern since acquiring Activision Blizzard for $69 cardinal successful 2023.

Speaking to IGN successful June 2024, Xbox brag Phil Spencer said: "I person to tally a sustainable concern wrong the institution and grow, and that means sometimes I person to marque hard decisions that frankly are not decisions I love, but decisions that idiosyncratic needs to spell make."

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