Microsoft makes layoffs across several divisions including gaming

Xbox maker Microsoft has confirmed a second round of job cuts this month

Microsoft makes layoffs across several divisions including gaming
Microsoft announced in January 2023 that it planned to lay off 10,000 employees, including some in its games division.

Microsoft has made an unspecified number of layoffs across several divisions.

According to Business Insider, the cuts will impact employees in the Xbox maker’s security, sales and gaming businesses.

A spokesperson for the company reportedly said the layoffs were small in number but didn’t confirm a figure.

The latest round of layoffs are separate from performance-based job cuts Microsoft made across departments last week.

Those cuts will affect less than 1% of its employees, which numbered 228,000 at the end of June 2024, according to a CNBC source.

“At Microsoft we focus on high-performance talent,” a spokesperson for the company told the site. “We are always working on helping people learn and grow. When people are not performing, we take the appropriate action.”

Microsoft’s head of gaming announced last January that 1,900 staff would be laid off across Activision Blizzard, Bethesda and Xbox. At the time, Phil Spencer claimed that the decision was ultimately the result of a lack of growth in the games industry.

The company announced a further 650 jobs cuts in its gaming division last September.

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