{"id":22566,"date":"2026-07-02T17:42:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T12:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=22566"},"modified":"2026-07-02T17:42:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T12:42:41","slug":"microsoft-may-cut-more-than-5500-jobs-in-new-round-of-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=22566","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft May Cut More Than 5,500 Jobs in New Round of Layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Microsoft is reportedly preparing to announce another major round of layoffs next week, with more than 5,500 jobs worldwide potentially at risk.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to a report by Business Insider, the planned job cuts would affect less than 2.5% of Microsoft&#8217;s global workforce. The reductions could impact multiple divisions, including sales, consulting and the Xbox gaming business.<\/p>\n<p>As of June 30, 2025, Microsoft employed approximately 228,000 full-time workers worldwide. If the layoffs remain below 2.5% of the workforce, the total number of affected employees would be fewer than 5,700.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has not officially confirmed the reports. However, sources say the company is considering restructuring measures aimed at improving operational efficiency and reducing costs.<\/p>\n<p>The company continues to invest heavily in artificial intelligence and cloud computing while expanding AI-powered products and building new data centers around the world to meet growing demand.<\/p>\n<p>Industry analysts say Microsoft and other major technology companies are increasingly shifting resources away from traditional business operations toward artificial intelligence, software development and cloud infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is reportedly preparing to announce another major round of layoffs next week, with more than 5,500 jobs worldwide potentially at risk. According to a report by Business Insider, the planned job cuts would affect less than 2.5% of Microsoft&#8217;s global workforce. The reductions could impact multiple divisions, including sales, consulting and the Xbox gaming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,40],"tags":[237,236,12758,12756,12759,4905,9022,12755,156,12760,5540,1148,10065,9895,12757],"class_list":["post-22566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-technology","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-business-insider","tag-cloud-computing","tag-data-centers","tag-employment","tag-jobs","tag-layoffs","tag-microsoft","tag-software-development","tag-tech-industry","tag-technology","tag-workforce","tag-world-news","tag-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22567,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22566\/revisions\/22567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}