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: Microsoft, one of the world’s largest tech companies, is going to take a big decision once again and retrench thousands of employees. This decision has come at a time when the global tech industry is going through a recession and cast cutting. This retrenchment of Microsoft is believed to be the biggest retrenchment after the company’s 2023, which will affect thousands of families.

4% employees were fired

Microsoft has confirmed that it has fired 9,100 out of its total 2.28 lakh employees. That is, the company has reduced about 4% of its total employees. However, it has not been clarified how many of these employees are from the headquarters in Washington, USA. Earlier in May and June, 6,000 employees were trimmed in two phases, of which 2,300 were reported from Washington.

Causes of Sorting: Recession, Cost Cutting and Profit Savement

The company said in its statement that it is taking this decision to make the functioning more effective. Microsoft has taken this major step due to global recession, fall in income and cost control. This step can also affect the company’s sales team, which is already in the possibility of trimming.

Chief officer on leave, restlessness inside and outside

Microsoft Chief Commercial Officer Judson Althaoff has decided to go on a two -month holiday. The company said that he has taken this break itself and it is associated with the end of the company’s financial year. He will return in September. Meanwhile, restlessness has increased inside the company and its impact is being felt in the tech industry outside.

Continuation of retrenchment in tech industry continues

Prior to Microsoft, veteran companies like Google, Amazon and Meta have also removed thousands of employees. Experts believe that in the coming months it may intensify the period of retrenchment. Due to maintaining profits and automation, tech companies are reducing the expenditure on human resources, which is directly affecting the employees.

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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