America The legendary tech company Microsoft is avoiding 9000 employees, affecting about 4 percent of the company’s total workforce. The company has started pruning this in the new era of cost cutting. Let us tell you that Microsoft is trimmed for the second time this year. The latest retrenchment is being done at different departments, locations and levels of the company. A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed the trimming of 9000 employees. The spokesperson said, “We are taking these steps keeping in mind the organizational changes required to bring the company and teams to better position for success in this dynamic market today.”
The company has already fired 6000 employees from jobs this year
Microsoft said that this trimming is a part of the company’s efforts to improve the operations better, reduce management levels and improve overall efficiency. Let us tell you that earlier the company had fired about 6000 employees in January, May and June. If this latest layoffs are merged, the number of people who lost jobs from Microsoft will be more than 15,000 in the first 6 months of 2025. The total number of Microsoft employees will be around 2,19,000 after taking 9000 people from their jobs.
Microsoft trimmed 10,000 people in 2023
According to media reports, this time the sorting on the sales team will have the most impact. Apart from this, employees of other teams including Xbox will also be affected by this. Let us tell you that Microsoft has an old history of internal restructuring at the end of its financial year in June. In 2023, the American company fired around 10,000 employees. But the 2025 trimming is going to be much larger and effective than the 2023 trimmed. This year, the company has already fired about 6000 employees and now 9000 employees are being trimmed.
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