{"id":940570,"date":"2025-06-23T08:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T02:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=940570"},"modified":"2025-06-23T08:36:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T03:06:41","slug":"intel-amazon-meta-and-other-us-tech-firms-announce-mass-layoffs-in-2025-citing-cost-cutting-and-ai-as-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/23\/intel-amazon-meta-and-other-us-tech-firms-announce-mass-layoffs-in-2025-citing-cost-cutting-and-ai-as-reasons\/","title":{"rendered":"Intel, Amazon, Meta and other US tech firms announce mass layoffs in 2025, citing cost-cutting and AI as reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giants like Amazon, Microsoft, Meta and Intel have announced mass job layoffs throughout 2025. These mass layoffs are primarily attributed to broad cost-cutting initiatives and a strategic move towards AI and automation across various sectors. <\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has initiated its third wave of job cuts for the year, primarily impacting its sales division and other customer-facing roles. This follows earlier rounds in May, which saw over 6,000 job eliminations (approximately 3 per cent of its global staff), and additional cuts impacting over 300 roles weeks later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giants like Amazon, Microsoft, Meta and Intel have announced mass job layoffs throughout 2025. These mass layoffs are primarily attributed to broad cost-cutting initiatives and a strategic move towards AI and automation across various sectors. Microsoft has initiated its third wave of job cuts for the year, primarily impacting its sales division and other customer-facing roles. This follows earlier rounds in May, which saw over 6,000 job eliminations (approximately 3 per cent of its global staff), and additional cuts impacting over 300 roles weeks later.<\/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-940570","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\/940570","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=940570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}