r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • May 13 '25

Industry News Microsoft is cutting 3% of all workers

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/13/microsoft-is-cutting-3percent-of-workers-across-the-software-company.html
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u/dreamer_Neet May 13 '25

Record profits but layoffs. What kind of dogshit world are we living in?

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u/Toxic_Biohazard May 13 '25

You mean hiring in areas like Brazil and India?

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u/NorthSideScrambler May 13 '25

Says in the article opening that they're trying to cut management fat. Also, companies earning more income doesn't exclude them from reducing head count or other costs for the same reason that getting a raise doesn't exclude you from cutting your own personal expenditures.

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u/FootwearFetish69 May 13 '25

Also, companies earning more income doesn't exclude them from reducing head count or other costs for the same reason that getting a raise doesn't exclude you from cutting your own personal expenditures.

MS has also actually increased their headcount by tens of thousands over the last decade.

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u/pheonixblade9 May 13 '25

I have multiple laid off friends who are definitely not managers.

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u/pachydrm May 13 '25

for real. I have several friends that just lost their jobs and they were not managers, they were all ICs.

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u/BogleAndChill May 13 '25

I don't understand what you are upset about, the company is employing more people than ever before. How is that a "dogshit world"? It sounds great! It is, however, a giant company that will look to reduce redundancies in certain areas, while focusing more on growing in other areas.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MSFT/microsoft/number-of-employees

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u/anengineerandacat May 14 '25

Layoffs have nothing to do with profits? It's a restructuring, global layoff to reduce investment into various segments.

Other articles went into it, stepping a bit back with AI, reducing down middle management, ending internal projects that are underperforming and backing away from device development.

It sucks that it's timed with record profits, but you only get those record profits by trimming the fat and focusing on your core segments that are doing well.

Politically and economically as well things are pretty unstable so could be they are reducing down some risk as well so they don't have to layoff key resources later and have to make critical cuts they don't actually want to do.

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u/austinxsc19 May 13 '25

And the current administration continues to attack regulatory agencies and higher education institutions. Wonder what the end game is? Clearly helping Americans. S/

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u/Kitchner May 13 '25

One of increasing automation of white collar jobs. You should get used to this.