Microsoft to fire 6,000 workers

Microsoft, Tuesday 13 May 2025, said that he was firing less than 3% of his workforce, or about 6,000 employees, since the technology giant tries to curb the costs while channeling billions of dollars into its ambitious bet on artificial intelligence.

The cuts will be on all levels and geographical areas and are probably the largest since Microsoft has fired 10,000 employees in 2023.

The company has let go of a small number of staff in January on performance issues, but the new cuts are not related to this.

Big Tech has heavily spent the IA as they see the new technology as an important growth engine, while cutting the costs elsewhere to safeguard the profit margins.

Google has also fired hundreds of employees in the last year, since it seems to check the costs and give priority to artificial intelligence, they have reported the media.

“We continue to implement the organizational changes necessary to better position the company for success in a dynamic market,” said a Microsoft spokesman by post.

The company, which had 228,000 workers in June last year, regularly uses layoffs to give priority to staff in its areas of main interest.

Tuesday’s move arrives weeks after Microsoft recorded a stronger growth than expected in his cloud activity that composes the results of Azure and bursts in the last quarter, calming the concerns of investors in an uncertain economy.

But the cost of the downsizing of its infrastructure Ai has weighed on profitability, with Microsoft’s cloud margins that restrict to 69% in the quarter of March compared to 72% of a year ago, reported Reuters.

Microsoft has allocated 80 billion dollars of capital expenditure this year tax year, with most of them aimed at expanding data centers to facilitate bottlenecks for artificial intelligence services.