Microsoft He began to send dismissal notifications on Wednesday, affecting the business of Xbox video games of the company and other divisions. Among those who lose their jobs are 830 workers Linked to the headquarters of the technological giant in Redmond (Washington), according to a notification sent Wednesday to state authorities.
Microsoft said the cuts will affect several teams worldwide, including their sales division, part of “organizational changes“necessary to succeed in a”dynamic market“.
A memorandum to the employees of the Game Division on Wednesday of the Xbox CEO, Phil Spencer, said the cuts would position the video game business “For lasting success and would allow us to focus on strategic growth areas.” Xbox “Microsoft would follow in the elimination of management layers for Increase agility and efficacy“Spencer wrote.
Microsoft used to 228,000 workers Full time in June 2024, the last time he reported his annual template. Their last dismissals would reduce less than 4% of that templateaccording to Microsoft. But there have already been at least three layoffs this year and it is unlikely that the new hiring has matched the losses. In any case, a 4% cut would be equivalent to some 9,000 people.
Until now, the greatest dismissal of this year occurred in May, when Microsoft began to fire about 6,000 workersalmost 3% of its world template and its greatest job cut in more than two years.
The cuts occur while Microsoft continues to invest huge amounts of money in Data centers, computer chips specialized and other infrastructure necessary to advance their ambitions. The company provided that these expenses would cost him some 80,000 million dollars (67.8 billion euros) in the last fiscal year. His new fiscal year began on Tuesday.
Last month, Microsoft suppressed other 300 workers of its Redmond headquarters, which joined the almost 2,000, also in the state of Washington, which lost their jobs in the Puget Sound region in May. Most of these workers performed functions of Software Engineering and Product Managementaccording to the information that the company sent to the employment officials of the state of Washington.
Microsoft’s financial director Amy Hood said in a call of April results that the company focused on “Create high performance equipment and increase our agility by reducing layers With fewer managers“.