CBS – Microsoft legt knapp 4% seiner Belegschaft in einer neuen Runde von Jobkürzungen ab, teilte das Unternehmen am Mittwoch mit.
Die Kürzungen werden 9.000 Arbeitnehmer im gesamten Unternehmen betreffen, da sie weiterhin Schritte unternehmen, um die Mitarbeiter zu trimmen.
"Wir umsetzen weiterhin organisatorische Änderungen, die erforderlich sind, um das Unternehmen und die Teams für den Erfolg auf einem dynamischen Markt am besten zu positionieren." Ein Microsoft -Sprecher sagte in einer Erklärung zu CBS News.
Die jüngste Entlassungsrunde erfolgt, nachdem das Unternehmen im Mai und Juni mehr als 6.000 Arbeitsplätze gesenkt hat, um den Betrieb zu optimieren. Die vorherigen Jobkürzungen sollten die Organisation abgeflacht haben "Durch Reduzieren von Schichten mit weniger Managern," Amy Hood, Chief Financial Officer von Microsoft, sagte bei einem Gewinnanruf im April.
Ab Juni 2024 beschäftigte das in Redmond, Washington ansässige Unternehmen, laut Unternehmensdaten weltweit rund 228.000 Menschen.
Der Umzug am Mittwoch verspricht das übergeordnete Ziel der Organisation, die Anzahl der Manager pro Team zu senken. Es kommt auch, dass Microsoft die Mitarbeiter ermutigt, sich auf neue Technologien und Fähigkeiten zu stützen, um sich auf sinnvolle Arbeit zu konzentrieren, sagte ein Sprecher des Unternehmens.
Microsoft meldete im dritten Quartal im März einen Nettoergebnis von fast 26 Milliarden US -Dollar und einen Umsatz von mehr als 70 Milliarden US -Dollar. Laut FactSet ist es eines der profitabelsten Unternehmen mit einer Marktkapitalisierung von 3,7 Billionen US -Dollar.
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**Submission Statement**
As the technology sector faces a wave of layoffs, demand for H-1B visas, which enable U.S. companies to employ skilled foreign professionals in specialized roles, continues unabated. Microsoft, a dominant force in the industry, is reportedly set to reduce its U.S. workforce by approximately 9,000 jobs in 2025, following an earlier elimination of over [6,000 positions](https://archive.is/jezGR) in May and June 2025, primarily in Washington state. Concurrently, the company has [filed 14,181](https://archive.is/7lRal) Labor Condition Applications to secure H-1B visas for foreign workers in 2025, signaling a significant push to bring in international talent, particularly for roles like software engineering. Despite these workforce reductions, Microsoft’s financial performance remains exceptional, with a reported net income of roughly $26 billion and revenues exceeding $70 billion for the third quarter ending March 2025, driven by its leadership in cloud computing and AI. With a staggering $3.7 trillion market capitalization, according to FactSet, Microsoft stands as one of the world’s most financially formidable companies, raising questions about the balance between cost-cutting measures and global talent acquisition strategies amid ongoing economic and competitive pressures.
funny this wasn’t in the seattle times article
These are the people stealing your jobs! These are the companies who give zero shits about American workers.
One of colleges in California did that years ago. Let go of a lot tech/it and replaced them with Visa workers.
In meantime they continue to discontinue support on their products including windows 10 this fall.
Don’t need a workforce when what they really want is a mobile gaming service based model. This is sega all over. But people think naw it’ll be fine because gamepass. Well it takes 3 people and a monkey with a hamster for an assistant to run the day to day and a thousand of contract for a day workers when pushing an update once a month.
Microsoft has different sectors to it. Not like these hires are going to the places where ppl are getting let go from
There’s no conspiracy here, unfortunately, it’s just standard business practice these days.
99% of the layoffs affected Microsoft’s gaming division due to underwhelming results and poor decisions.
Right now, Microsoft’s revenue is largely driven by its cloud services, and that’s where most of the hiring is happening.
In today’s corporate environment, if one department is unprofitable, it’s rarely rescued by the revenue of another. So, layoffs in a loss-making division, even when other areas are performing well, have unfortunately become the norm.
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