{"id":526712,"date":"2026-07-01T00:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T00:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/526712\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T00:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T00:24:08","slug":"microsoft-to-cut-under-2-5-of-workforce-in-latest-layoffs-business-insider-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/526712\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft to cut under 2.5% of workforce in latest layoffs, Business Insider reports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">June 30 (Reuters) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/organizations\/microsoft\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:Microsoft;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;source:content-canvas%20default\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Microsoft&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yTrafficOrigin&quot;:&quot;content-canvas default&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"no-affiliate-link link\">Microsoft<\/a> is planning \u200cto cut under \u200c2.5% of its workforce \u200bin the latest round of layoffs that could be \u200cannounced \u2060as early as next week, Business \u2060Insider reported on Tuesday, citing \u200bpeople \u200bfamiliar \u200bwith the \u200cmatter.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">The layoffs will impact thousands of roles, including sales and consulting, as well \u200cas jobs \u200bat \u200bthe <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/gaming\/xbox\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:%E2%80%8BXbox;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;source:content-canvas%20default\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;\u200bXbox&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yTrafficOrigin&quot;:&quot;content-canvas default&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"no-affiliate-link link\">\u200bXbox<\/a> gaming division, \u200cthe report said.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Reuters \u200bcould \u200bnot immediately verify the report.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">(Reporting \u200bby \u200cBipasha Dey in \u200bBengaluru; Editing by \u200bVijay Kishore)  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"June 30 (Reuters) &#8211; Microsoft is planning \u200cto cut under \u200c2.5% of its workforce \u200bin the latest round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,1071,80],"class_list":["post-526712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-microsoft","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}