{"id":941317,"date":"2025-06-25T11:42:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T06:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=941317"},"modified":"2025-06-25T11:42:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T06:12:58","slug":"microsoft-plans-third-round-of-layoffs-this-year-after-6000-job-cuts-these-roles-are-likely-to-be-affected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/25\/microsoft-plans-third-round-of-layoffs-this-year-after-6000-job-cuts-these-roles-are-likely-to-be-affected\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft plans third round of layoffs this year after 6,000+ job cuts: These roles are likely to be affected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft will conduct another round of major layoffs in its Xbox gaming division next week as part of a broader company-wide reorganization, according to sources familiar with the plans. Managers within Xbox are expecting substantial cuts across the entire gaming group, marking the fourth significant layoff at the division in 18 months.<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming cuts will target thousands of employees primarily in sales divisions, with Xbox bearing a significant portion of the reductions. Bloomberg reported that the layoffs coincide with Microsoft&#8217;s fiscal year end on June 30, following the company&#8217;s pattern of making organizational changes during this period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft will conduct another round of major layoffs in its Xbox gaming division next week as part of a broader company-wide reorganization, according to sources familiar with the plans. Managers within Xbox are expecting substantial cuts across the entire gaming group, marking the fourth significant layoff at the division in 18 months. The upcoming cuts will target thousands of employees primarily in sales divisions, with Xbox bearing a significant portion of the reductions. Bloomberg reported that the layoffs coincide with Microsoft&#8217;s fiscal year end on June 30, following the company&#8217;s pattern of making organizational changes during this period.<\/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-941317","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\/941317","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=941317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}