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[Draugoth]

Microsoft Planning Thousands More Job Cuts Aimed at Salespeople

Microsoft Corp. is planning to ax thousands of jobs, particularly in sales, as part of the company’s latest move to trim its workforce amid heavy spending on artificial intelligence.

www.bloomberg.com

The news regarding the upcoming round of layoffs was broken by Bloomberg's Brody Ford and Matt Day, who revealed that the redundancies are expected to be announced in the next few weeks as Microsoft's fiscal year comes to an end.

 

[Yoshichan]

Microsoft lays off more people and reaches ATH

 

[RoboFu]

its just influencers and sales .. not a big deal.

 

[BennyBlanco]

88 billion in profit in the year 2024. Better lay more people off and replace their jobs with janky AI. I would never work for one of these companies.

 

[yazenov]

I hope adamsapple isn't affected by these layoffs. He was basically working overtime these past years.

 

[Loomy]

And Amazon is planning on laying off thousands more people. Tech industry is a fucking wasteland right now.

 

[Rocco Schiavone]

I hope adamsapple isn't affected by these layoffs. He was basically working overtime these past years.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

There is also drama brewing between OpenAI and Microsoft

 

[Zacfoldor]

And Amazon is planning on laying off thousands more people. Tech industry is a fucking wasteland right now.

 

[Deerock71]

Phil's true identity:

 

[Loomy]

Yeah. Amazon has laid off almost 30k people in the last 3 years and they're not done.

 

[mayham2199]

And Amazon is planning on laying off thousands more people. Tech industry is a fucking wasteland right now.

It's not even close to a wasteland.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

its just influencers and sales .. not a big deal.

sales don't matter after all

 

[Zacfoldor]

Yeah. Amazon has laid off almost 30k people in the last 3 years and they're not done.

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

Debating changing my name to Artificial Intelligence and we'll see who's intelligent.

 

[adamsapple]

There will be a day when Draugoth doesn't mess up the topic title.

 

[intheinbetween]

88 billion in profit in the year 2024. Better lay more people off and replace their jobs with janky AI. I would never work for one of these companies.

Jobs at Microsoft are not being cut because of AI but because of re-organization across its Business Units, some of them are being merged so there are redundancies.

 

[HYDE]

Microsoft lays off more people and reaches ATH

Gotta love corporate greed

 

[ReBurn]

Seems like they're moving to a system integrator sales model where you have to contract with a system integrator unless you're a huge enterprise. Surprised it took them this long, tbh.

 

[RoboFu]

sales don't matter after all

they really haven't been doing their job for the past 4-5 years ...

 

[OverHeat]

Fire Spencer you cowards instead

 

[Skifi28]

sales don't matter after all

 

[winjer]

More people getting fired, but I bet the CEO is getting a fat bonus at the end of the year.

 

[Topher]

Microsoft Planning Thousands More Job Cuts Aimed at Salespeople

Microsoft Corp. is planning to ax thousands of jobs, particularly in sales, as part of the company’s latest move to trim its workforce amid heavy spending on artificial intelligence.

www.bloomberg.com

https://archive.is/NiItU

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

https://archive.is/NiItU

"The reductions won't exclusively affect sales teams"

 

[lastmessiah]

Gotta love corporate greed

they answer to their shareholders, it's shareholder greed if anything.

 

[PauloRoberto]

More people getting fired, but I bet the CEO is getting a fat bonus at the end of the year.

The worst part is that the Satya (using those savage capitalism metrics, is doing allright...). The problem are some other C-Level guys those do NOTHING and receive credit$ - yes Spencer, Im talking about you!

 

[ShaiKhulud1989]

[Windows Central/Jez Corden] Xbox has turned a corner — the future for Microsoft's gaming platform once again looks incredibly bright

 

[SEGAvangelist]

 

[LavitzSlambert]

Primarily aimed at sales and marketing for small to medium businesses. So departments that comprises nearly 20% of their employee base, in uncertain economic times where smaller businesses are struggling in general.

I am guessing Xbox will be impacted as the continue to scale down the physical presence, but this looks to be more impactful on enterprise software business. They are cutting costs because they are not going to be seeing much growth in the near term outside of a couple key markets.

 

[LordCBH]

Jesus fucking Christ.

"Thank you for helping us become the most valuable company in the world and improve our growth exponentially. Now get the fuck out."

This shits all a sick fucking joke.

 

[CLW]

Microsoft lays off more people and reaches ATH

Yeah MS gaming division has almost ZERO impact on the stock price

 

[TintoConCasera]

It is what it is...

I've started a few project on my own because it's clear that big corpos will be betting on replacing humans with AI, and no fucking way I go back to working on a shitty start-up.

Good luck lads, hope nobody here get's fucked by being repoaced by an AI.

 

[M.W.]

Microsoft's net worth, represented by its market capitalization, is currently $3.57 trillion as of June 18, 2025. This figure is calculated by multiplying the current stock price by the number of outstanding shares. Microsoft is one of the world's most valuable companies, consistently ranking among the top by market cap

 

[username12]

Microsoft lays off more people and reaches ATH

Apparently stockholders think they are making the proper decisions adjusting after having hired tens of thousands of people over the past few years.

 

[Blade2.0]

What a garbage ass timeline we've cultivated.