Microsoft has confirmed cuts amounting to 3% of its entire workforce.
CNBC reported that Microsoft had 228,000 employees as of June 2024, and is aiming to reduce management layers across all its teams. Approximately 6,000 employees are affected.
“We continue to implement organizational changes necessary to best position the company for success in a dynamic marketplace,” a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement to CNBC.
IGN has asked Microsoft if the cuts affect its video game business.
In September 2024, Microsoft cut a further 650 staff from its gaming business after 1,900 staff were cut earlier that year. As part of those cuts, Microsoft closed Hi-Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks and Redfall developer Arkane Austin. In total Microsoft let go of 2,550 staff from its gaming business since acquiring Activision Blizzard for $69 billion in 2023.
Speaking to IGN in June 2024, Xbox boss Phil Spencer said: “I have to run a sustainable business inside the company and grow, and that means sometimes I have to make hard decisions that frankly are not decisions I love, but decisions that somebody needs to go make.”
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