{"id":1017972,"date":"2026-07-01T08:04:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T02:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1017972"},"modified":"2026-07-01T08:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T02:34:17","slug":"microsoft-to-cut-under-2-5-of-workforce-in-latest-layoffs-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/01\/microsoft-to-cut-under-2-5-of-workforce-in-latest-layoffs-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft to cut under 2.5% of workforce in latest layoffs: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is planning \u200bto cut under 2.5% of \u200bits workforce in the latest round of \u200blayoffs that could be announced as early as next week, Business Insider reported on Tuesday, citing sources. <\/p>\n<p>Reuters could not immediately verify the report. <\/p>\n<p>U.S. companies \u200chave continued \u2060to trim \u2060headcount in recent months, with a fresh wave of layoffs across the \u200btechnology, media and finance sectors as firms rein in costs, while investing heavily \u200bin AI infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is planning \u200bto cut under 2.5% of \u200bits workforce in the latest round of \u200blayoffs that could be announced as early as next week, Business Insider reported on Tuesday, citing sources. Reuters could not immediately verify the report. U.S. companies \u200chave continued \u2060to trim \u2060headcount in recent months, with a fresh wave of layoffs across the \u200btechnology, media and finance sectors as firms rein in costs, while investing heavily \u200bin AI infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017973,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017972\/revisions\/1017973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}