{"id":943864,"date":"2025-07-04T12:08:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T06:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=943864"},"modified":"2025-07-04T13:55:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T08:25:26","slug":"microsoft-has-laid-off-more-employees-since-2023-than-population-of-this-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/04\/microsoft-has-laid-off-more-employees-since-2023-than-population-of-this-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft has laid off more employees since 2023 than population of this country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is reportedly firing 9000 employees which is roughly 4\u202f% of Microsoft\u2019s 228,000\u2011strong global workforce. The latest round of cuts follow the massive layoff in May when around 6,000 jobs were slashed. In the past few years, the tech giant has been riding a dramatic wave of workforce reductions tied to its aggressive pivot towards artificial intelligence (AI). If you add up the numbers, Microsoft has terminated more employees over the past three years than the entire population of an island nation near New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>During January 2023, the company initiated a major lay\u2011off affecting 10,000 positions. Additional smaller cutbacks\u20141,000 in summer 2024 (Azure) and 650 in late 2024 (Xbox)\u2014bring the cumulative total to more than 27,000 roles lost since 2023. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is reportedly firing 9000 employees which is roughly 4\u202f% of Microsoft\u2019s 228,000\u2011strong global workforce. The latest round of cuts follow the massive layoff in May when around 6,000 jobs were slashed. In the past few years, the tech giant has been riding a dramatic wave of workforce reductions tied to its aggressive pivot towards artificial intelligence (AI). If you add up the numbers, Microsoft has terminated more employees over the past three years than the entire population of an island nation near New Zealand. During January 2023, the company initiated a major lay\u2011off affecting 10,000 positions. Additional smaller cutbacks\u20141,000 [&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":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-943864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943864","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=943864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}