Satya Nadella, CEO from Microsoft, speaks on April 30, 2024 at Microsoft Build Ai Day in Jakarta, Indonesia.
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Microsoft said on Wednesday that around 9,000 employees will be released. The move will affect less than 4% of his global workforce in various teams, geographies and experience levels, said a person familiar with the matter.
The announcement will be made on the second day of the 2026 financial year by Microsoft. Managers of the company based in Redmond, Washington, usually present reorganizations at the time of the new financial year.
“We continue to implement organizational changes that are necessary to best position the company and the teams for success in a dynamic market,” said a Microsoft spokesman in an e -mail.
Microsoft has already held several discount rounds this calendar year. In January it cut less than 1% of the workforce based on performance. The 50-year-old software company reduced over 6,000 jobs in May and then at least 300 more in June. From June 2024 it employed 228,000 people. In 2023 it took 10,000.
Perhaps the greatest equipment of Microsoft workers came in 2014 when the company eliminated 18,000 after the acquisition of devices and service business in Nokia.
As with the Mai, Microsoft would like to reduce the number of layers of managers that stand between individual contributors and top executives, the person said.
“In order to position playing for permanent success and concentrate on strategic growth areas, we will end or reduce the work in certain areas of the company and follow the management of Microsoft to remove the management layers in order to increase mobility and effectiveness,” wrote Phil Spencer, CEO from Microsoft from Gaming, in a Wednesday memo Department.
Microsoft generated sales of almost 26 billion US dollars for $ 70 billion in March. The numbers were far from the Wall Street consensus and, according to Data, which was compiled by Factset, were one of the most profitable companies in the S&P 500 index.
In the June Quartal, the managers demanded about 14% of the previous year to grow sales of around 14%
On June 26, Microsoft Stock closed with a record high of $ 497.45 per share. At the beginning of the trading session on Wednesday, the shares declined by about 0.6%, while the S&P 500 was about flat.
AutodeskPresent Cegg And Crowdstrike are among the other software providers who changed in 2025. On Wednesday earlier, salary accounting company ADP said the US private sector lost 33,000 jobs in June. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had predicted an increase of 100,000.
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