In 2025, there has been a stir in the technology industry once again. Legendary companies like TCS, Microsoft and Intel have said goodbye to their thousands of employees and the biggest reason for this is being given the increasing role of AI and automation. According to industry experts, this trend is intensifying due to “AI Restructure” or “AI Transformation”, where many old roles have now become non-essential.

How many people took out which company?

TCS has confirmed that it will pruning about 12,200 employees in this financial year. These are mostly happening in mid and senior level positions, especially the rolls where traditional skills or non-AI tasks were included. The company’s focus is now on projects with AI and new technology. At the same time, Microsoft has evacuated around 15,000 people in 2025, the highest trimmed in July. Microsoft says it is investing in addition to cloud, AI and automation sector, which has reduced positions in old sales, support and gaming divisions.

Talking about Intel, the company has started the process of trimming up to 25,000 people. Intel said that due to slow profit growth, semiconductor markets and reality in AI projects, they have to decrease workforce. In July alone, more than 5,000 employees have been removed.

Why is AI and automation being trimmed?

This time not only in these three companies, but also big names like Google, Amazon, Meta have also trimmed thousands of people in 2025. The reason is clear – AI, workflows shifting on machine learning and automation. Companies are now preparing more automated, future-red work processes than manpower, which are reduced to manual, representative and old technology rolls.

Who is the most damaged?

Market trends show that mid and senior level employees are the most affected, especially those who have not yet learned skills such as AI, data, machine learning or cloud. Apart from this, in the global market including India, this wave has reached IT, support, project management and even gaming divisions.

The world’s legendary tech company Microsoft is once again preparing to lay down the employees on a large scale. This time the most impact is going to be on the company’s sales and marketing divisions.

According to reports, Microsoft can announce the availability of thousands of employees from the job earlier this month. This decision is coming at a time when the company is investing heavily in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and is rectifying its internal structure again.

Top officer on leave

The company’s top sales executive Jadson Altoff has announced to go to an eight -week leave just before the trithan announcement. According to Bloomberg’s report, Microsoft has confirmed that Jadson Altoff, who is the Chief Commercial Officer of the company, will return after completing his holiday in September. A spokesman for the company has said that this holiday was already decided and a plan has been made according to the internal calendar of Microsoft.

This action will be the third trim of this year

Let us know that this will be the third major trim of this year for Microsoft. In May, the company trimmed about 6,000 employees and after a few weeks, more than 300 more people went to jobs. Now once again the company is going to start a new round of retrenchment in July, with the start of the new financial year.

This time the most impact will be affected by customer-faceing, ie customers having direct contact with customers. In the earlier two priests, where most of the software engineers and product developers were affected, this time teams related to sales and marketing will be the most affected. In Microsoft, about 45,000 employees work in sales and marketing divisions, while the total workforce of the company was around 2.28 lakhs as of June 2024.

Pointing to changing business model

In April this year, Microsoft had indicated that it will now do the work of selling software to small and mid-size business customers through third party agencies. It was clear from this that the company is moving towards shortening its customer-port and sales networks. According to the report of Bloomberg, although this trimming will not be limited to the sales team only, but the most impact will be on this department.

This move of Microsoft is considered part of its long -term strategy, in which the company wants to focus more on techniques like AI and automation. In such a situation, it can be considered another step towards limiting the role of human resources.

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Microsoft Layoffs: Technical sector veteran American company Microsoft is going to make a second big spill in 2 years. According to reports, about 4 percent of its total staff is now going to run scissors, so that more than 9000 employees will now come on the road. This news has been revealed in Seattle Times. After 2023, Microsoft has the biggest pruning ever. It is believed that there is a financial uncertainty to reduce the expenses behind the extract of such a large number of employees.

Microsoft again trimmed

In June 2024, a total of 22800 employees were working in the company. In June, Bloomberg said in its report that the tech company is planning to take out thousands of staff, especially of people engaged in sales. In the month of May this year, Microsoft took out about 6000 people. However, no official statement has been given by Microsoft about this trimming.

The news was also revealed that in June this year, the company has excluded about three hundred people. It is believed that this time the scissors will be above the staff who are directly associated with the customers, such as marketing and sales. Last time too, the company did not run scissors on the jobs of product developers or software engineers. The company is constantly making structural changes on its own.

Company focus on AI

CNBC has cited Microsoft spokesperson, in which they said that the company will continue to make necessary organizational changes to create its better position in the market. Significantly, earlier Google also announced the retrenchment. Google and Microsoft are constantly investing money on AI research and development. AI is being engaged in work like coding, due to which the jobs of people engaged in this work are getting in danger.

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Microsoft Layoffs: One of the world’s well-known tech companies is American company Microsoft. IT professionals have a big dream to work here. But now Microsoft is now engaged in snatching the upside job from them instead of giving jobs to people in this changing era of AI. The employees are now bringing the streets. After showing the way out to 6000 employees last month, Microsoft has started the process of second round to exclude more than 300 people from the job.

Another big trimming

According to Bloomberg’s report, Microsoft is going to take these steps to operate the company’s work smoothly. However, the situation will not be clear about which department will be evacuated from which department after the biggest pruning ever so far, nor is it clear which department will affect the company’s move. A Microsoft spokesperson said that the company continues to make institutional changes to improve itself according to the market.

Help will be taken from AI

It is worth noting that while Microsoft has announced a cut in its work force on the one hand, on the other hand, by investing in AI, help is being taken in coding and other technical work.

According to the data of June 2024, this American tech company had 2,28,800 full time employees. About half of them were working in America. In such a situation, this is a clear indication from Microsoft that in this era of AI, the company is doing its entire focus on the growth of the company. Also, the tradition is going to get up from the role and become more dependent on technology.

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If you have been working in a company for 25 years and suddenly you are thrown out of the company one day, then how will you feel. One such incident remains a matter of discussion on social media these days. The biggest thing is that this time the pain of getting out of the job has not been told by the employee himself, but his wife has expressed it.

What is the whole matter?

Posting on the social media platform reddit, a woman wrote, “My husband worked for 25 years in Microsoft. Never taken a holiday, even worked from home even when he was ill. He helped her colleagues one day and night, he took an on-call shift on festivals, never asked for promotion … But now a computer algorithm took them out.”

According to the woman, her husband is struggling with autism and she also has multiple sclerosis. Despite this, he never lagged behind his responsibilities. But his service suddenly ended with the “random selection” of an algorithm and that too just before his 48th birthday.

Microsoft’s big trimming

In fact, on 13 May 2025, Microsoft pruning about 6,000 employees. According to the company, this decision was taken to increase its AI investment and remove the ‘unnecessary management layer’. This was the second largest pruning in the history of Microsoft. Over 2,000 people lost jobs in the US state of Washington alone. The company says that it wants the employee to focus on more valu-edited works.

AI director also out

Microsoft’s AI Director, Gabriela de Queiroz, was also shown the way out in this trimming. He wrote on X that he is in a heart-breaking situation with this news, but he attended the meeting on the go and said goodbye to everyone. He said that even though his job went away, his optimistic thinking is still alive. He wrote, “There is a gift every day and I still know to smile.”

“No cost of loyalty”

After this retrenchment, Microsoft was fiercely criticized on social media. Many users said that this incident is proof that now there is no use of having emotional connection with a company. A user raised the question, “Did the algorithm targe those who have crossed the age of 40 or who have more health insurance expenses on the company?”

AI’s increasing interference, decreasing importance of humans?

Microsoft argues that the company wants to include more AI in its products and services. CEO Satya Nadella recently said that 30 percent coding in some projects is now being done by AI and a VP asked to take this target up to 50 percent. This is the reason that engineers and senior teams were trimmed to even Leeds, so that machines could handle the works that humans were still doing.

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