Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks with the Indonesian Minister of Communication and Information Technologies Budi Arie Setiadi, the day of their meeting with Indonesian President Joko Widodo, at the presidential palace of Jakarta, Indonesia, April 30, 2024.
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Microsoft has dismissed more than 15,000 people so far in 2025. Stress of the tight belt at CEO Satya Nadella.
“Before anything else, I want to talk about what weighs on me heavily and what I know that many of you think: recent job eliminations,” Nadella wrote in a note to employees on Thursday.
After the latest Microsoft workforce discounts, investors pushed the action closing price more than $ 500 for the first time on July 9. The company announced the layoffs of around 9,000 people a week earlier. Microsoft employed 228,000 people in June 2024. He did not provide again figure that takes into account his layoffs this year, but Nadella wrote that the workforce is fundamentally flat.
“This is the enigma of success in an industry that has no franchise value,” he wrote. “Progress is not linear. It is dynamic, sometimes dissonant and always demanding. But it is also a new opportunity for us to shape, lead and have a more important impact than ever.”
Microsoft’s cuts reflect a global trend in the technological industry, with more than 80,000 positions eliminated to date in 2025, according to a charge. Recruit Holdings announced earlier this month that it would dismiss 1,300 people from its human resources technology segment which includes the websites Ivel and Glassdoor. The CEO of the company underlined artificial intelligence in a memo, Bloomberg reported.
On social networks in recent months, some Microsoft employees have discouraged the company’s discounts, given its stature.
“I loved working for this company, but it did so much damage to this loyalty, because he showed that Microsoft’s adopted values do not apply to business decisions at the macro level”, a person who lists as a Microsoft led on LinkedIn was published last week.
Microsoft is the most precious public company in the world after Nvidiawhose chips have become a critical piece of the AI arms race. The Windows and Microsoft Office franchises remain dominant, and its Cloud Azure services have experienced faster growth in recent years, because Openai and other companies have been renting Nvidia graphics cards to execute AI models.
In the memo, Nadella addressed Microsoft’s mission for 10 years, which was to empower each person and each organization of the planet to achieve more, and how the rise in AI changes it.
“We have to reinvent our mission for a new era,” he wrote. “What does ENG ERT AS AI?
Microsoft reports the fourth quarter tax results on Wednesday.
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