{"id":930788,"date":"2025-05-15T08:01:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T02:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=930788"},"modified":"2025-05-15T08:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T02:40:09","slug":"ai-director-also-affected-in-microsofts-recent-layoffs-impacting-6000-employees-globally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/15\/ai-director-also-affected-in-microsofts-recent-layoffs-impacting-6000-employees-globally\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Director also affected in Microsoft\u2019s recent layoffs impacting 6,000 employees globally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In its recent layoff, Microsoft has let go of about 6,000 employees or 3% of its total employees across all levels and geographies and many employees were asked to leave immediately. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were asked to stop work immediately and set an out-of-office (notification). But I chose to stay a little longer-showing up for meetings, saying goodbye, wrapping up what I could. That felt right to me,&#8221; said Gabriela de Queiroz, Director of AI at Microsoft, who is one among the 6,000 employees. Earlier in 2023, the company fired 10,000 or about 5% of its total employee base globally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its recent layoff, Microsoft has let go of about 6,000 employees or 3% of its total employees across all levels and geographies and many employees were asked to leave immediately. &#8220;We were asked to stop work immediately and set an out-of-office (notification). But I chose to stay a little longer-showing up for meetings, saying goodbye, wrapping up what I could. That felt right to me,&#8221; said Gabriela de Queiroz, Director of AI at Microsoft, who is one among the 6,000 employees. Earlier in 2023, the company fired 10,000 or about 5% of its total employee base globally.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-930788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930788","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=930788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}