Again in Could 2025, Microsoft determined to put off 3% of its workforce, which amounted to roughly 6,000 staff. It claimed that this determination allowed it to implement higher organizational modifications in a “dynamic market”. Now, a brand new report claims that the Redmond tech agency is planning to put off hundreds extra subsequent month.

Citing unnamed sources, Bloomberg experiences that as the corporate continues investing closely in its AI ventures, it’s about to announce layoffs of hundreds of staff as early as subsequent month. This discount in workforce will primarily have an effect on gross sales groups, however they will not be the one ones affected. That stated, the sources did point out that the timing for this announcement might change.

This transfer, if true, will not be fully shocking. In April 2025, Microsoft introduced that will probably be relying extra on third-party companies to promote its software program to small- and medium-sized clients. It is presently unclear what number of staff will likely be impacted by this modification, however even when the layoff proportion is within the single digits, it could nonetheless be important as it could be impacting the skilled careers of hundreds.

The Could 2025 layoffs primarily impacted engineering and product groups. The opposite main spherical of layoffs previous to this was the choice to remove 10,000 jobs again in January 2023. These represented 5% of the overall workforce at the moment, with quite a few groups, together with the one main Combined Actuality (MR) efforts, being closely impacted.

It’s attention-grabbing to notice that if the timing of the announcement for layoffs is correct, it could be quickly after Microsoft closes its fiscal yr on the finish of June 2025. Though we’ll get monetary experiences for the most recent quarter quickly after too, one has to marvel what the human value of revenue is, as Microsoft continues to report billions of {dollars} in income each quarter.

Supply: Bloomberg (paywall)