Microsoft Lays Off 6,000+ in Latest AI-Driven Restructuring

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Microsoft drops the hammer on 7,000 employees - that's 3% of its entire workforce vanishing overnight.

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Washington state workers got hit hardest: 1,985 people lost their jobs Tuesday, with 1,510 from Redmond HQ alone.

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The cuts slice through every level - from fresh college grads to veteran managers across Xbox, LinkedIn, and core teams.

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CFO Amy Hood's strategy: "fewer managers" to speed up decisions while the company just posted $25.8 billion in quarterly profits.

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Microsoft plans to dump $80 billion this year into AI servers and data centers - but apparently can't afford its current workforce.

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CEO Satya Nadella revealed the real plan: completely reshape sales strategy for the AI era, ditching "previous generation" approaches.

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New brutal rule: employees fired for performance can't return for two years - but these cuts aren't performance-based.

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Microsoft's stock hit $449.26 Monday - the year's peak - proving layoffs aren't about financial struggle.

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The company joins Meta, Amazon, Google, Salesforce, and Dell in cutting staff while pouring money into AI technology.

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Microsoft wants more engineers, fewer admin staff - copying the playbook that worked for other tech giants.

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This marks Microsoft's biggest workforce cut since 2023's 10,000-person massacre that devastated Seattle-area teams.

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With 228,000 employees worldwide, Microsoft is betting its future on AI while human workers pay the price.

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