{"id":1019381,"date":"2026-07-07T09:54:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T04:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1019381"},"modified":"2026-07-07T10:01:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T04:31:46","slug":"microsoft-cuts-4800-jobs-in-xbox-led-gaming-shake-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/07\/microsoft-cuts-4800-jobs-in-xbox-led-gaming-shake-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft cuts 4,800 jobs in Xbox-led gaming shake-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is cutting 4,800 jobs, about 2.1 per cent of its global workforce, including a large number of workers at its Xbox video game business. <\/p>\n<p>The layoffs included 1,600 Xbox workers, with more to come this year in a broader reorganisation designed to \u201creset\u201d Xbox as it faces heightened competition, the company said Monday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur business today is not healthy,\u201d said a memo from Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, who took over the gaming division earlier this year. \u201cWe are operating at margins that are 3-10x lower than comparable platform and publishing businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is cutting 4,800 jobs, about 2.1 per cent of its global workforce, including a large number of workers at its Xbox video game business. The layoffs included 1,600 Xbox workers, with more to come this year in a broader reorganisation designed to \u201creset\u201d Xbox as it faces heightened competition, the company said Monday. \u201cOur business today is not healthy,\u201d said a memo from Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, who took over the gaming division earlier this year. \u201cWe are operating at margins that are 3-10x lower than comparable platform and publishing businesses.\u201d<\/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":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019381","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=1019381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019391,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019381\/revisions\/1019391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}