{"id":944010,"date":"2025-07-05T07:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T02:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=944010"},"modified":"2025-07-05T08:04:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T02:34:47","slug":"microsoft-shuts-down-pakistan-office-after-25-years-stakeholders-call-it-troubling-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/05\/microsoft-shuts-down-pakistan-office-after-25-years-stakeholders-call-it-troubling-sign\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft shuts down Pakistan office after 25 years, stakeholders call it &#8216;troubling sign&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giant Microsoft has announced to shut down its limited operations in Pakistan as part of its global strategy to reduce workforce, which various stakeholders termed on Friday as a \u201ctroubling sign\u201d for the country&#8217;s economy. <\/p>\n<p>Microsoft, while closing its office in Pakistan on Thursday after 25 years, cited global restructuring and a shift to a cloud-based, partner-led model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giant Microsoft has announced to shut down its limited operations in Pakistan as part of its global strategy to reduce workforce, which various stakeholders termed on Friday as a \u201ctroubling sign\u201d for the country&#8217;s economy. Microsoft, while closing its office in Pakistan on Thursday after 25 years, cited global restructuring and a shift to a cloud-based, partner-led model.<\/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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944010","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=944010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}