{"id":855357,"date":"2024-09-13T10:17:57","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T04:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=855357"},"modified":"2024-09-13T10:24:21","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T04:54:21","slug":"microsoft-lays-off-650-employees-from-xbox-games-unit-in-restructuring-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/09\/13\/microsoft-lays-off-650-employees-from-xbox-games-unit-in-restructuring-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft lays off 650 employees from Xbox games unit in restructuring bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech layoffs, Microsoft: Over 650 employees from Microsoft\u2019s gaming division were laid off on Thursday, September 12. The job cuts were announced by Xbox chief Phil Spencer in an internal memo, according to a report by The Verge. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs part of aligning our post-acquisition team structure and managing our business, we have made the decision to eliminate approximately 650 roles across Microsoft Gaming \u2013 mostly corporate and supporting functions \u2013 to organize our business for long term success,\u201d Spencer was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech layoffs, Microsoft: Over 650 employees from Microsoft\u2019s gaming division were laid off on Thursday, September 12. The job cuts were announced by Xbox chief Phil Spencer in an internal memo, according to a report by The Verge. \u201cAs part of aligning our post-acquisition team structure and managing our business, we have made the decision to eliminate approximately 650 roles across Microsoft Gaming \u2013 mostly corporate and supporting functions \u2013 to organize our business for long term success,\u201d Spencer was quoted as saying.<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-855357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855357","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=855357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}