US EditionMicrosoft Execs Respond to Mass Layoff Rumors
Microsoft spokesperson denies rumors of 11,000 to 22,000 job cuts amid ongoing industry-wide workforce reductions and high AI investment costs.
- This month, Microsoft dismissed reports as speculative and false, with Shaw saying `100 percent made up / speculative / wrong` in online replies.
- Anonymous posts on Reddit and Blind sparked multiple websites to aggregate reports claiming cuts between 11,000 and 22,000 roles, while last year's layoffs affected 15,000 employees.
- Microsoft's Chief Communications Officer Frank X. Shaw engaged with online aggregators and said `I eagerly await`, adding `it's somewhat uncommon for us to be this clear on something like this.`
- While Microsoft denied the reports, it spent $88 billion on AI infrastructure in its 2025 fiscal year, and cost-cutting may seep into this year, the driving force behind layoffs isn't gone.
- Seattle-Area tech workers faced more than 4,300 job losses, with over 3,200 based in Washington, while Amazon cut 14,000 roles in late October, and Beth Galetti warned of more in 2026.
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Microsoft denies rumors that it’s about to lay off thousands more workers
Yesterday, an article from investor website TipRanks circulated throughout the games industry: The rumor was that Microsoft is planning to cut somewhere between 11,000 and 22,000 jobs in January, roughly 10% of its current workforce, to allay the increased cost of data center expansion as part of the company’s hard push toward AI development. If […]
The HR Digest, a website specializing in human resources topics, speculates that Microsoft could lay off up to 22,000 employees in the coming weeks. Other US media outlets are echoing this sentiment. Microsoft already cut over 15,000 jobs in 2025. Now, rumors of further layoffs at Microsoft are circulating again. According to HR Digest, this is part of a strategy to reduce hierarchies within the company over several years. When could the layoffs…
The big technology companies are usually in the first positions in terms of market capitalization and therefore deserve to belong to the "Big Tech" thus representing 6 big companies. Here we would have Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Meta and NVIDIA. Although these companies do not stop growing, they also have many losses and make controversial and difficult decisions to understand. Microsoft is on the run with the layoffs if we take into acco…
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