{"id":1019290,"date":"2026-07-07T08:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T03:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1019290"},"modified":"2026-07-07T09:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T03:33:09","slug":"30-xbox-staff-to-be-hit-by-microsoft-layoffs-ceo-says-people-who-poured-creativity-into-building-to-be-impacted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/07\/30-xbox-staff-to-be-hit-by-microsoft-layoffs-ceo-says-people-who-poured-creativity-into-building-to-be-impacted\/","title":{"rendered":"30% Xbox staff to be hit by Microsoft layoffs; CEO says people who \u2018poured creativity into building\u2019 to be impacted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft\u2018s latest job cuts will hit its gaming business the hardest. The company plans to lay off nearly 4,800 employees, or 2.1 percent of its global workforce, as it scales down different teams. The move, however, is likely to hit Xbox division the hardest, with reports suggesting that more than 30% of those cuts are expected to impact the division. <\/p>\n<p>As part of the \u201cXbox reset,\u201d Microsoft wants to reshape several gaming studios as part of its its long-term strategy, which includes scaling down its ownership over so many game developers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft\u2018s latest job cuts will hit its gaming business the hardest. The company plans to lay off nearly 4,800 employees, or 2.1 percent of its global workforce, as it scales down different teams. The move, however, is likely to hit Xbox division the hardest, with reports suggesting that more than 30% of those cuts are expected to impact the division. As part of the \u201cXbox reset,\u201d Microsoft wants to reshape several gaming studios as part of its its long-term strategy, which includes scaling down its ownership over so many game developers.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019290","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=1019290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019315,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019290\/revisions\/1019315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}