The new message suggests Microsoft is preparing to release up to 9,000 employees. This will be the latest of many recent Microsoft releases in the last year, and unfortunately this new round will also affect the Xbox Xbox division.
Game and technology industries have experienced countless layoffs in recent years, in some cases it has canceled projects and closed the entire studios. In the case of Microsoft, these releases were often heavy hitters, with studios such as Alpha Dog Games, Roundhouse Studios, Tango Gameworks and Arkane Austin, which closed in 2024. In 2023, Microsoft Activision Blizzard received $ 68.7 billion, which developed well on the game division. However, Xbox Game Pass has recently stagnated because the reports indicate that the service has already reached 35 million subscribers, which is far from 100 million subscribers reported by the company by 2030.
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The variety has now said that the upcoming Microsoft's release will affect approximately 4% of the total workforce of Microsoft approximately 228,000 people. This means that up to 9,000 people could be released from society, a change that will probably affect multiple studies of Xbox owned. Microsoft's head head Phil Spencer recently addressed release and acknowledged that “changes” come at a time when the company has multiple players and games than ever. He added, however, that for Xbox it was necessary to make “hard decisions” to continue to be successful.
Microsoft expected to release up to 9,000 employees
Reports of the upcoming Microsoft release began to appear last month. Unfortunately, it is still too early to know which studios will be affected and how much the impact on the game division as a whole will be, but rumors are beginning to circle around potentially canceled projects.
Last week, the industry veteran claimed that up to 2,000 Xbox jobs could be influenced in these redundancies, which represents about 10 to 20% of the work force of the game division. Forza Motorsport Studios Developer Turn 10 has been reported as “reinforcement for cuts”.
This announcement is governed by an unfortunate trend for Microsoft. For example, in May 2025, Microsoft released around 6,000 people and identified one of the largest laps that the company recorded since January 2023, when 10,000 workers were released. It remains to be found whether this is the last round of release in Microsoft at any time or whether the company will continue to reduce jobs in the near future.
- Founded date
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April 4, 1975
- Headquarters
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Redmond, Washington, United States
- Ceo
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Satya nadella
- Subsidiary
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Activision Blizzard, Microsoft Studios, Mojang Studios, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox Game Studios
