Microsoft laying off about 9,000 employees in latest round of cuts
Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, speaks at Microsoft Build AI Day in Jakarta, Indonesia on April 30, 2024.
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Microsoft He said he would leave about 9,000 employees on Wednesday. A person familiar with the issue will affect less than 4% of the global labor in movement, different teams, geographies and experience levels in a statement to CNBC.
The announcement comes on the second day of Microsoft’s 2026 financial year. The Washington -based Redmond usually explains reorganizations during the new financial year.
“We continue to implement organizational changes to position the best for success in a dynamic market,” a microsoft spokesman, “Microsoft spokesman. He said.
Microsoft, this calendar year has already made several ports. In January, it cut less than 1% of the number of headcounts according to performance. The 50 -year -old software company did more than 6,000 jobs in May and then at least 300 more work in June. As of June, 228,000 people employed. It was dismissed 10,000 in 2023.
Perhaps the biggest Culling of Microsoft workers in 2014 Eliminated 18,000 After purchasing Nokia’s device and service works.
As in May, Microsoft wants to reduce the number of executive layers standing among the individual contributions and senior executives.
Microsoft reported a net revenue of approximately 26 billion dollars for the March quarter. According to the data compiled by Factset, the numbers were far ahead of Wall Street’s consensus, and Microsoft was listed as one of the most profitable companies in the S&P 500 index.
Managers called for approximately 14% annual income increase in June quarter thanks to the expected expansion and corporate productivity software subscriptions in Azure Cloud Services
Microsoft shares fell by about 0.6% at the beginning of the trade session on Wednesday, while the S&P 500 was roughly flat.
Otodesk– Festive And Crowdstrike Among the other software providers who were weakened in 2025. On Wednesday, payroll processing company ADP The US said that the private sector lost 33,000 jobs in June. Economists who participated in the survey by Dow Jones envisaged a 100,000 increase.
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