{"id":18807,"date":"2025-05-14T07:37:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T05:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/14\/microsoft-to-lay-off-6000-workers-despite-streak-of-profitable-quarters\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T07:37:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T05:37:18","slug":"microsoft-to-lay-off-6000-workers-despite-streak-of-profitable-quarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/14\/microsoft-to-lay-off-6000-workers-despite-streak-of-profitable-quarters\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft to lay off 6,000 workers despite streak of profitable quarters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cuts follow push to slim management ranks, despite headcount still being up year-on-year in March<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft says it is laying off nearly 3% of its entire workforce.<\/p>\n<p>The tech giant didn\u2019t disclose the total amount of lost jobs, but it will amount to about 6,000 people. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> employed 228,000 full-time workers as of last June, the last time it reported its annual headcount. About 55% of those workers were in the US.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/may\/13\/microsoft-layoffs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/2418adff3880a127785b8b0ee9c106a19655bd68\/576_0_7217_5774\/master\/7217.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=bcd2b6b5c71efa156cc4f618bb7d26ff\" title=\"Microsoft to lay off 6,000 workers despite streak of profitable quarters\" \/>Cuts follow push to slim management ranks, despite headcount still being up year-on-year in March<br \/>\nMicrosoft says it is laying off nearly 3% of its entire workforce.<br \/>\nThe tech giant didn\u2019t disclose the total amount of lost jobs, but it will amount to about 6,000 people. Microsoft employed 228,000 full-time workers as of last June, the last time it reported its annual headcount. About 55% of those workers were in the US. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuts follow push to slim management ranks, despite headcount still being up year-on-year in March Microsoft says it is laying off nearly 3% of its entire workforce. The tech giant didn\u2019t disclose the total amount of lost jobs, but it will amount to about 6,000 people. Microsoft employed 228,000 full-time workers as of last June, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/14\/microsoft-to-lay-off-6000-workers-despite-streak-of-profitable-quarters\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft to lay off 6,000 workers despite streak of profitable quarters<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18807"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}