Microsoft mass layoffs: Thousands of jobs cut, Xbox division hit hard.
Microsoft mass layoffs: Thousands of jobs cut, Xbox division hit hard A bad day for Microsoft. By Matthews Martins on July 2, 2025 Credit: Matthias Balk/picture alliance via Getty Images Microsoft is planning to cut thousands of jobs, its biggest round of layoffs in years. The company confirmed it is going to layoff around 9,000 people — about 4 percent of its workforce — on Wednesday, according to a report from The Seattle Times . While the exact makeup of the layoffs remains unknown, The Verge reported employees in Microsoft's gaming division — folks who work on Xbox — have been hit particularly hard. Layoffs have become a fact of life at Microsoft lately. These new layoffs follows some 6,000 jobs getting cut less than two months ago. The latest round of layoffs mark the biggest cut, however, since 2023, when the company cut 10,000 jobs . Mashable Light Speed Want more out-of-this world tech, space and...
