Microsoft to lay off 6,000 workers to trim management layers

Microsoft said it will cut 6,000 workers across the company in an effort to reduce management layers.

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The planned terminations will amount to less than 3 per cent of total headcount and occur across geographies, employee levels and include LinkedIn, a spokesperson said. "We continue to implement organisational changes necessary to best position the company for success in a dynamic marketplace," the spokesperson said.

The job cuts represent Microsoft's largest reduction since eliminating 10,000 roles in 2023.

Unlike January's smaller performance-based cuts, the company indicated that these layoffs are structural in nature. Microsoft, which employed 228,000 people in June 2024, deploys periodic layoffs, often to reorient its headcount towards priority areas.