{"id":983978,"date":"2026-01-08T07:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T02:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=983978"},"modified":"2026-01-08T07:44:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T02:14:45","slug":"job-cuts-2026-reports-suggest-microsoft-may-announce-job-cuts-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/08\/job-cuts-2026-reports-suggest-microsoft-may-announce-job-cuts-in-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Job cuts 2026: Reports suggest Microsoft may announce job cuts in January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft may be preparing for this year\u2019s first round of job cuts, according to a report by HR Digest. The report said that teams across Gaming, Azure and Sales are most likely to be impacted. <\/p>\n<p>The information was first shared through a post on Blind, an anonymous professional networking platform. According to the post, between 5% and 10% of Microsoft\u2019s employees could be affected in the third week of January. <\/p>\n<p>The suggested rationale behind the move is a push to cut down on middle management layers and increase the individual contributor to manager (IC) ratios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft may be preparing for this year\u2019s first round of job cuts, according to a report by HR Digest. The report said that teams across Gaming, Azure and Sales are most likely to be impacted. The information was first shared through a post on Blind, an anonymous professional networking platform. According to the post, between 5% and 10% of Microsoft\u2019s employees could be affected in the third week of January. The suggested rationale behind the move is a push to cut down on middle management layers and increase the individual contributor to manager (IC) ratios.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983978","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=983978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}