Microsoft layoffs

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Microsoft set to announce big layoffs, according to multiple reports (CNN)

Microsoft could announce thousands of job cuts on Wednesday, according to multiple news reports, potentially becoming the latest tech company to cull its ...

Facebook [(FB)](https://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=FB&source=story_quote_link) parent Meta also recently announced 11,000 job cuts, the largest in the company’s history. While the overall labor market remains tight, layoffs in the tech sector have mounted at a staggering pace. The [Wall Street Journal](https://www.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-plans-to-announce-layoffs-as-early-as-wednesday-morning-11674001917), also citing a person familiar with the matter, said the layoffs could be announced as soon as Wednesday. [(AMZN)](https://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=AMZN&source=story_quote_link) announced that it plans to lay off 18,000 people and Salesforce said it is cutting 10% of its staff. [Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-17/microsoft-to-cut-jobs-in-engineering-divisions-this-week?sref=VYQZzSZK), which cited a person familiar with the matter. Multiple tech companies have made deep cuts to their workforces since the start of the year, as inflation weighs on consumer spending and rising interest rates squeeze funding.

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Microsoft to Lay Off 10000 Workers as It Looks to Trim Costs (The New York Times)

The job cuts, which amount to less than 5 percent of the company's work force, are its largest in roughly eight years.

“We’re also seeing organizations in every industry and geography exercise caution as some parts of the world are in a recession and other parts are anticipating one,” he added. In October, Amy Hood, the company’s finance chief, told investors that the slowdown in consumer PC sales that started in September would continue through at least June. The company is scheduled to report its next quarterly earnings on Tuesday. In the quarter ending in September, Microsoft had $50 billion in sales that produced $17.6 billion in profit. With the cuts, Microsoft joined a string of other tech giants that have pulled back after several years of frenetic hiring to meet the pandemic-fueled surge in online services and the expansion of cloud computing. Among the industry’s big companies, Google’s parent company, Alphabet, and Apple are the only firms yet to announce significant layoffs. The company’s annual revenue grew 58 percent over three years, during which time it hired more than 75,000 people. [Salesforce](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/04/technology/salesforce-layoffs.html) said this month that it planned to lay off 10 percent of its work force, or about 8,000 employees, and [Meta, the parent company of Facebook](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/09/technology/meta-layoffs-facebook.html), announced at the end of last year that it was cutting more than 11,000 jobs. Nadella wrote to employees. Microsoft and its peers responded to surging customer demand by essentially hoarding technical staff. “I don’t think this is symptomatic of a bigger issue.” But tech’s giants have not been spared.

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Satya Nadella Confirms 10000 Microsoft Layoffs | CRN (CRN)

Microsoft layoffs include 10000 employees that will be laid off through March, as CEO Satya Nadella says the software company's cuts are necessary due to ...

“To me this is the natural progression of all the infrastructure the channel has delivered for decades,” he said. That will bring the total number of his customers that have moved to Microsoft 365 and Azure to 75 percent. In fact, Stinner said he sees the layoffs as a call to action for Microsoft partners to embrace change and drive further growth. The people who want to complain about this are the pessmists of society and not the abundance mindset thinkers.” He expects Microsoft 365 sales and Azure sales to be up anther 40 to 60 percent this year. “Satya Nadella is the most forward thinking CEO Microsoft has had since Bill Gates when the mantra was a computer on every desktop in every business and every home. “For AWS, the number of layoffs is not meaningful in any way.” Now the mantra is Microsoft creates the software to make people reach their full potential. “As we saw customers accelerate their digital spend during the pandemic, we’re now seeing them optimize their digital spend to do more with less,” said Nadella. “There’s this uncertainty in the air,” said Selipsky on stage during a keynote at AWS re:Invent 2022. “We continue to see robust growth in new applications, services and workloads with AWS. This is a far slower growth rate than Microsoft has seen over the past several years.

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Microsoft slashes 10000 jobs, the latest in a wave of layoffs (NPR)

Microsoft will cut 10,000 workers over the next few months, CEO Satya Nadella announced in a statement released on Wednesday. Layoffs will begin immediately ...

The company began notifying affected workers on Wednesday, and plans to complete the layoffs by the Spring, according to the note. The staff reduction announcement on Wednesday comes a week after the tech giant said it would be allowing U.S. One area Microsoft has been focusing on is artificial intelligence. The cuts represent a little less than 5% of Microsoft's global workforce of 221,000 employees. Investment analyst firm Wedbush Securities on Wednesday described the recent spate of layoffs in the tech sector as "a rip off the Band-aid moment to preserve margins and cut costs." Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the company is "seeing organizations in every industry and geography exercise caution as some parts of the world are in a recession and other parts are anticipating one," in a note to employees posted online and in a

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Microsoft to slash 10000 jobs as layoffs accelerate in tech (Globalnews.ca)

Microsoft said the layoffs and costs related to hardware-portfolio and other changes will result in a charge of $1.2 billion in the second quarter of fiscal ...

[Man arrested after attempt to kidnap barista through drive-thru window](https://globalnews.ca/news/9418602/man-arrested-kidnap-attempt-drive-thru-barista-washington/) [How to rebound from a layoff in Canadian tech: ‘Control your narrative’](https://globalnews.ca/news/9052909/canada-tech-layoffs-next-steps-shopify-hootsuite/) [Microsoft Corp](http://globalnews.ca/tag/microsoft) said on Wednesday it would cut 10,000 jobs by the end of the third quarter of fiscal 2023, the latest sign that layoffs were accelerating in the U.S.

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Microsoft to cut 10000 jobs as wave of layoffs sweeps tech industry (The Washington Post)

Microsoft plans to lay off 10,000 employees, the company said Wednesday, as part of a restructuring plan to focus on areas of growth and brace the company ...

The near-term cost of the moves is expected to be $1.2 billion in its fiscal 2023 second quarter, which ends in December. Nadella told employees Wednesday that Microsoft would “continue to invest in strategic areas for our future ... The company’s retrenchment is its largest in several years. “Tech companies were spending at such an eye popping pace, they’re the first ones that are going to cut spending," Ives said. The layoffs at Microsoft amount to less than 5 percent of its 221,000-person workforce. Microsoft, in particular, had expanded rapidly during the pandemic, adding 77,000 employees from 2019 staffing levels, according to regulatory filings.

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Microsoft slashes 10000 jobs, the latest in a wave of layoffs (WJCT NEWS)

Amazon, Salesforce and Goldman Sachs have also announced cuts during a brutal January for corporate workers.

The company began notifying affected workers on Wednesday, and plans to complete the layoffs by the Spring, according to the note. The staff reduction announcement on Wednesday comes a week after the tech giant said it would be allowing U.S. One area Microsoft has been focusing on is artificial intelligence. The cuts represent a little less than 5% of Microsoft's global workforce of 221,000 employees. Investment analyst firm Wedbush Securities on Wednesday described the recent spate of layoffs in the tech sector as "a rip off the Band-aid moment to preserve margins and cut costs." Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the company is "seeing organizations in every industry and geography exercise caution as some parts of the world are in a recession and other parts are anticipating one," in a note to employees posted online and in a

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Microsoft to cut 10000 jobs as tech layoffs intensify (Reuters)

Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it would cut 10000 jobs by the end of the third quarter of fiscal 2023, the latest sign that layoffs were accelerating in ...

In July last year, it said a small number of roles had been eliminated. Microsoft is terminating 878 full-time workers at its Redmond headquarters, according to an update on Washington State's Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) page. "At the same time, the next major wave of computing is being born with advances in AI." Employees in China will be notified after the Chinese New Year. law, most employers are required to report staff cuts affecting 50 or more workers at a single location. AI is likely to be one of those areas. However, Microsoft would keep hiring in "strategic areas," he said. [to 35%](/technology/microsoft-beats-quarterly-revenue-estimates-2022-10-25/) in the first fiscal quarter of 2023, and the company projects more cooling to come. Customers wanted to "optimize their digital spend to do more with less" and "exercise caution as some parts of the world are in a recession and other parts are anticipating one," he said. Register for free to Reuters and know the full story In a note to employees, CEO Satya Nadella attempted to address the divergent outlook for different parts of the business. [(MSFT.O)](https://www.reuters.com/companies/MSFT.O) on Wednesday said it would eliminate 10,000 jobs and take a $1.2 billion charge to earnings, as its cloud-computing customers reassess their spending and the company braces for potential recession.

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Microsoft layoffs are not enough to shake our cautious view of the ... (CNBC)

Microsoft's (MSFT) layoff announcement Wednesday reinforces the Club's belief that the technology giant's business has more challenges ahead.

Investors in Microsoft are grappling with the push and pull between the rocky present and hopeful future, and how much weight to put on both. "We expect MSFT to embed this technology in all of its services, and for it to be a major driver of incremental revenue and ultimately position the company in a more dominant position within every cloud segment with shocking but organic new services." See here for a full list of the stocks.) As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade. Over the coming years, the company stands to benefit from an injection of federal infrastructure spending, and it has a capital return program — dividend plus stock buybacks — that the Club covets in this market. "The way we see it, any potential layoffs are a tactical reaction to the cyclical conditions in this part of the business cycle, but the possible investment in OpenAI and bringing AI across the Microsoft portfolio could help drive growth for decades to come." The Club wants to see tech giants tighten their belts, and Microsoft took a step in that direction — although more may need to be done, Jim Cramer suggested Wednesday.

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Microsoft announces mass layoffs following multibillion-dollar ... (Daily Hive)

Microsoft is the latest tech giant to announce mass layoffs impacting around 10,000 employees. ADVERTISEMENT. We emailed Microsoft to see how many Canadian ...

“I want to extend my deepest thanks and gratitude to everyone who has contributed to Microsoft up to this point and to all of you who will continue to contribute as we chart our path ahead. Microsoft has Canadian offices in Toronto, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Edmonton and Calgary. We emailed Microsoft to see how many Canadian employees might be affected by the news.

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Tech Layoffs Mount as Microsoft, Amazon Shed Staff (Voice of America)

Software giant Microsoft on Wednesday became the latest major company in the tech sector to announce significant job cuts when it reported it would lay off ...

A disproportionate share of workers in the U.S. The threat to the American economy long term is not inflation, it's immigration," he said. “I don't think the tech sector is going to heck in a handbasket,” he said. was just the latest chapter in a long cycle of booms and busts in the tech sector. the workers it needs to drive economic growth. O’Mara said that over the last 10 years, with low interest rates and large amounts of cash flowing through the economy, conditions have been “extraordinary” for the growth of U.S. “Tech is an industry that's very much fueled by investment capital and the stock market.” “Tech is many orders of magnitude larger than it ever has been before,” she said. He said the company would seek to drive growth by increasing its own productivity. In all, the website has counted more than 1,200 firms making layoffs since the beginning of 2022. “And then when things softened a little bit, they realized they had hired too many people.” The website

Subject: Focusing on our short- and long-term opportunity - The ... (Microsoft)

Satya Nadella shared the below communication today with Microsoft employees. We're living through times of significant change, and as I meet with customers ...

I want to extend my deepest thanks and gratitude to everyone who has contributed to Microsoft up to this point and to all of you who will continue to contribute as we chart our path ahead. When I think about this moment in time, the start of 2023, it’s showtime – for our industry and for Microsoft. These are the kinds of hard choices we have made throughout our 47-year history to remain a consequential company in this industry that is unforgiving to anyone who doesn’t adapt to platform shifts. The senior leadership team and I are committed that as we go through this process, we will do so in the most thoughtful and transparent way possible. Today, we are making changes that will result in the reduction of our overall workforce by 10,000 jobs through the end of FY23 Q3. We’re also seeing organizations in every industry and geography exercise caution as some parts of the world are in a recession and other parts are anticipating one.

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Microsoft layoffs show that no tech company is safe to work at right ... (Yahoo Canada Finance)

Many anticipated the cuts, but they further emphasize how every company is impacted by inflation, rising interest rates, and lower customer spending.

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Amazon and Microsoft's big layoffs aren't solving the talent shortage ... (Fortune)

The pool of tech talent isn't as deep as it seems, says EY CEO Carmine Di Sibio. So what's happening with the thousands of laid off tech workers?

And, The Information reported in November, the search engine polymath was recasting performance review practices in order to identify roughly [10,000 employees it considered “low performers”](https://fortune.com/2022/11/23/google-toughening-performance-reviews-employees-fear-layoffs/) in terms of their impact on the company’s bottom line. And 37% of laid-off tech workers got a new job in less than one month. Even [putting employees out of work](https://fortune.com/2022/09/30/what-its-like-for-tech-employees-who-survive-layoffs-at-company/). The likes of Meta, Tech companies ahead of the holiday period wrapped up the year with a lot of painful belt tightening. January isn’t even over yet, and it’s already the second-highest monthly total for the tech sector since September 2015—a year when many companies were forced to contend with changing trends and a pivot or die mentality.

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Microsoft And Amazon Lay Off Thousands (Forbes)

Microsoft is laying off 5% of its workforce, citing recessions as a key factor · Amazon still holds the title of biggest layoff yet, with 18,000 employees fired ...

Some experts are suggesting the layoffs are a precursor to shifting priorities for these big companies. One answer is to use the power of AI to decide that for you. We’re seeing a consolidation phase play out in tech, and there are likely to be some surprising winners and losers emerging over the next few years. The question is where to put your money. Is that a reason to lose hope in the tech sector? The latest Nash Squared report found that global tech spend is predicted to increase at its There’s some exciting innovation still to come from these companies and smaller players in the market. All of these together suggest Big Tech expanded rapidly, paid top dollar for the best talent, and the gamble hasn’t paid off. [ 27% drop in profits](https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/alphabet-s-net-profit-in-3rd-qtr-sinks-27-to-13-9-bn-revenue-up-6-122102600203_1.html) for Q3 last year down to $13.9bn. The shopping leviathan said it planned to cut 18,000 of its global employees. The total comes to roughly 11,000 workers. Some are concerned the 5% reduction figure means more layoffs might be on the horizon in 2023.

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Microsoft Layoffs Hit Employees In Marketing, HoloLens, Advertising ... (CRN)

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says in an online post that Microsoft will continue to hire in 'key strategic areas.' ARTICLE TITLE HERE ...

[recruiter](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/carlos-ramirez81_i-woke-up-to-the-news-about-my-employer-laying-activity-7021553189271322624-Nr1c?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop) at Microsoft who worked for the company for more than a year. [IVAS](https://www.crn.com/news/managed-services/us-army-delays-microsoft-headset-adoption), were among the business units hit by layoffs, [according](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-18/microsoft-scales-back-hololens-business-after-setback-on-us-army-goggles#xj4y7vzkg) to Bloomberg. and concerns over a possible global recession. Army’s request for $400 million to buy up to 6,900 HoloLens goggles this fiscal year. “And my heart goes out to everyone else affected by the layoffs.” “Unfortunately, I was among the employees. [marketing](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/johnemrick_hi-all-i-was-included-in-the-microsoft-activity-7021546202231951362-1UYo?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop) employees for the company’s [industry solutions](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ericwahlquist_opentowork-activity-7021529160137277440-ylIO?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop), one with Microsoft for more than six years and the other with the company for more than four years [recruiter](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/peter-ruiz_opentowork-activity-7021578769182158848-FHKc?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop) with Microsoft for more than two years Microsoft and other tech vendors have blamed recent layoffs on customer demand returning to normal after the scramble to remote work and digital transformation during the pandemic. [recruiter](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7021544832363859969-xzQF?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop) at Microsoft for more than three years The U.S. [recruiter](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/krystal-j-28868a29_opentowork-microsoft-activity-7021575858742034433-Lnxt?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop) with Microsoft for more than a year

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AI Isn't to Blame for Layoffs at Microsoft and Other Tech Companies (TIME)

Microsoft became the latest major tech company to announce massive layoffs on Wednesday. Roughly 5% of the company's workforce—or 10,000 jobs—will be ...

[Layoffs.fyi.](https://layoffs.fyi/) Microsoft was among those companies. And a lot of that work is being outsourced to underpaid workers in countries around the world.” [article](https://www.wired.com/story/picture-limitless-creativity-ai-image-generators/) arguing that there is a long history of technology augmenting human work rather than replacing it. Between June of 2021 and 2022, they [hired a record 40,000 employees](https://www.geekwire.com/2022/new-filing-microsoft-added-record-40000-employees-in-the-past-year-up-22-before-job-cuts/). But behind the scenes, there’s often a lot of people who have to fill in the roles of actually doing the work: of checking what the AI is generating and dealing with all of the problems its producing. “This may be the result of efforts to hide AI’s dependence on this large labor force when celebrating the efficiency gains of technology.” While many people had bought laptops early in the pandemic in order to to work from home, [PC sales slowed dramatically](https://www.wsj.com/articles/pc-shipments-drop-sharply-with-slump-expected-to-persist-until-2024-11673482173?mod=article_inline) in 2022. During an interview at the 2023 World Economic Forum this week, Nadella said that Microsoft planned to build AI into all of its products. To tame inflation, the Federal Reserve began to raise interest rates in the hopes that consumers would curtail their spending, thus lowering demand and the price of everyday goods. “There was this idea that the pandemic would mark this kind of permanent change in behavior: that everyone would be working from home and wouldn’t go to stores or movie theaters. However, the layoffs at Microsoft and other tech companies have much more to do with current economic conditions than recent AI breakthroughs, experts argue. “The next major wave of computing is being born with advances in AI, as we’re turning the world’s most advanced models into a new computing platform,” Nadella wrote.

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