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Microsoft’s largest layoff in years hits Xbox, sales and other divisions
AP ^ | 7/2/25 | Matt O'Brien

Posted on 07/03/2025 6:06:09 AM PDT by DallasBiff

Microsoft says it is laying off about 9,000 workers, its second mass layoff in months and its largest in more than two years.

The tech giant began sending out layoff notices Wednesday that hit the company’s Xbox video game business and other divisions.

Among those losing their jobs are 830 workers tied to Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington, according to a notice sent to state officials Wednesday.

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AI taking over?
1 posted on 07/03/2025 6:06:09 AM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

H-1Bs taking over.


2 posted on 07/03/2025 6:19:18 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: DallasBiff

BS. They fired 2000 or so people in America but want to import 6000 foreign H1b workers.


3 posted on 07/03/2025 6:27:47 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: ConservativeMind

Big tech is turning into a handful of ultra rich and powerful white guys forcing a bunch of Indian young guys to work nights and weekends, implementing clever ways of displaying advertising and censoring common sense. No white guys need apply.


4 posted on 07/03/2025 6:30:55 AM PDT by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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