Microsoft has announced plans to lay off about 9,000 employees, representing less than 4% of its global workforce across different teams, geographies, and levels of experience, representing the latest in a series of layoffs this calendar year.
In January, Microsoft cut a small percentage of jobs across departments, based on performance, then in May, the software company cut over 6,000 jobs and at least 300 more in June.
The latest cut is part of Microsoft’s plan to reduce the number of layers of managers that stand between individual contributors and top executives. It follows the June 30 close of the company’s fiscal year.
Microsoft traditionally makes cuts and restructures operations this time of year as it prepares for its new fiscal year, but it is unusual to see such sizable cutbacks in multiple rounds so close together. Microsoft’s latest cutback is part of wider cuts being witnessed across the tech sector in 2025
