{"id":1020521,"date":"2026-07-13T11:20:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1020521"},"modified":"2026-07-13T11:20:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:50:30","slug":"as-microsoft-lays-off-4800-employees-hr-head-amy-colemans-memo-has-a-direct-line-for-all-the-employees-the-jobs-are-not-being-replaced-by-ai-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/13\/as-microsoft-lays-off-4800-employees-hr-head-amy-colemans-memo-has-a-direct-line-for-all-the-employees-the-jobs-are-not-being-replaced-by-ai-but\/","title":{"rendered":"As Microsoft lays off 4,800 employees, HR head Amy Coleman&#8217;s memo has a &#8216;direct&#8217; line for all the employees: The jobs are not being replaced by AI, but&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft cut 4,800 jobs on Monday, about 2.1% of its global workforce, and the person tasked with explaining why wanted one thing on the record straight away. &#8220;I also want to be direct that the roles eliminated today are not being replaced by AI,&#8221; chief people officer Amy Coleman wrote in a memo to employees. Then came the qualifier that undercut the reassurance: &#8220;At the same time, what is true is that AI is changing how work gets done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That single sentence captured the discomfort running through the whole announcement. Microsoft is pouring roughly $190 billion into AI infrastructure this year, up more than 60% from 2025, even as it trims staff to pay for it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft cut 4,800 jobs on Monday, about 2.1% of its global workforce, and the person tasked with explaining why wanted one thing on the record straight away. &#8220;I also want to be direct that the roles eliminated today are not being replaced by AI,&#8221; chief people officer Amy Coleman wrote in a memo to employees. Then came the qualifier that undercut the reassurance: &#8220;At the same time, what is true is that AI is changing how work gets done.&#8221; That single sentence captured the discomfort running through the whole announcement. Microsoft is pouring roughly $190 billion into AI infrastructure this [&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-1020521","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\/1020521","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=1020521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020522,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020521\/revisions\/1020522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}