American technology company Microsoft’s workforce will be reduced by about four percent. The company is making heavy investment in Artificial Intelligence (AI). Because of this, the staff is being reduced to reduce the cost. Earlier, Microsoft had trimmed a large number of workers.

A one of reates Report According to, the company had about 2,28,000 workers later last month. It is preparing to remove thousands of these workers. This will have a major impact on divisions like sales and gaming. Microsoft, which created the Windows operating system, had informed about a capital expenditure of about $ 80 billion in FY 2025. However, the cost of increasing infrastructure related to AI is affecting its margin. The company has stated that its plan is to reduce the number of managers and improve its products and procedure.

About 10 percent of the workers are also being removed from a division of Microsoft in Barcelona, ​​Spain. This division makes Candy Crush Video Games. Earlier this year, META, who had anted social media platform Facebook, had said that she had trimmed a large number of workers. Internet search engine Google’s company Alphabet also reduced its workforce. Google workers had expressed concern about this. The workers of the company started an internal petition titled ‘Job Security’. These workers said that such steps of the company affect their ability to work with good quality and weaken the morale.

Last month, CEO of Alphabet, Sundar Pichai said that the hiring of engineers in the company will continue. He said that despite increasing the use of AI, it cannot replace workers. Pichai had reported that AI acts as an accelerator instead of Human talent options. This makes it easier for the company to take advantage of more occasions in the emerging area of ​​technology. Pichai had said, “I hope our existing engineering base will be extended by next year.” This attitude of Pichai is different from other companies who are looking at AI as a means of reducing the cost.

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CEO of Alphabet, who operates Google among big tech companies, Sundar Pichai has said that the hiring of engineers will continue in the company. He said that despite the increase in the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), it cannot replace workers.

In the Bloomberg Tech Conference, Pichai reported that AI acts as an accelerator rather than the option of Human Talent. This makes it easier for the company to take advantage of more occasions in the emerging area of ​​technology. Pichai said, “I hope our existing engineering base will be extended by next year.” This attitude of Pichai is different from other companies that look at AI as a means of reducing the cost.

American technology and e-commerce company Amazon, software company Microsoft and META, which operates social media platform Facebook, have trimmed thousands of workers in the last few months. These companies are increasing their investment in AI. This has increased the possibility of AI replacing Human workers in the tech industry. Pichai said that AI has increased the production of engineers. Some tasks are being done with the help of AI and engineers can be engaged in more impact tasks. However, Google has also invested billions of dollars in AI.

Recently, the company had said that Google One Subscription Service has increased more than 15 crore subscribers. In this service, subscribers have to pay for cloud storage and artificial intelligence (AI) features. Nearly six years after the service of Google One, its number of subscribers exceeded 10 crores in February last year. Along with this, Google introduced a paid plan with access to AI features. The price of this plan was $ 19.99 per month. However, access to AI features is not available for Google One’s free users. There is a low price plan for features like this service file storage. For the last few years, Alphabet has been getting a tough competition from AI chatbots like Chatgpt of Openai. Alphabet can help in strengthening the financial position in long-term by increasing subscriptions of Google One service.