{"id":944048,"date":"2025-07-05T08:24:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T02:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=944048"},"modified":"2025-07-05T08:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T03:18:08","slug":"after-25-years-microsoft-shuts-shop-in-pakistan-officials-see-it-as-troubling-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/05\/after-25-years-microsoft-shuts-shop-in-pakistan-officials-see-it-as-troubling-sign\/","title":{"rendered":"After 25 years, Microsoft shuts shop in Pakistan, officials see it as &#8216;troubling sign&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: 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<p>The move came as the tech giant cut roughly 9,100 jobs worldwide (or about 4 per cent of its workforce) in its largest layoff round since 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: 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. The move came as the tech giant cut roughly 9,100 jobs worldwide (or about 4 per cent of its workforce) in its largest layoff round since 2023.<\/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":[20,44,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-it-2-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944048","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=944048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}