{"id":1018385,"date":"2026-07-02T09:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T03:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018385"},"modified":"2026-07-02T09:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T03:31:14","slug":"microsoft-plans-another-round-of-layoffs-may-cut-thousands-of-jobs-across-teams-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/02\/microsoft-plans-another-round-of-layoffs-may-cut-thousands-of-jobs-across-teams-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft plans another round of layoffs, may cut thousands of jobs across teams in &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is preparing to announce another round of layoffs as part of the company\u2019s efforts to rein in costs, according to a report by Business Insider. The job cuts are expected to affect proffesisoanls in the sales, consulting and roles within the Xbox gaming division. While the scale will be smaller than last year\u2019s reductions, thousands of positions could be eliminated. This latest round of layoffs is said to impact less than 2.5% of Microsoft\u2019s 220,000-person workforce, compared to last year\u2019s larger layoffs that saw 6,000, jobs cut in May and another 9,000 in July about 4% of staff. As per the report by BI, some of the affected employees are now being offered new roles at the company.<\/p>\n<p>The layoffs are expected to be announced next week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is preparing to announce another round of layoffs as part of the company\u2019s efforts to rein in costs, according to a report by Business Insider. The job cuts are expected to affect proffesisoanls in the sales, consulting and roles within the Xbox gaming division. While the scale will be smaller than last year\u2019s reductions, thousands of positions could be eliminated. This latest round of layoffs is said to impact less than 2.5% of Microsoft\u2019s 220,000-person workforce, compared to last year\u2019s larger layoffs that saw 6,000, jobs cut in May and another 9,000 in July about 4% of staff. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018385","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018386,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018385\/revisions\/1018386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}