Microsoft’s international headcount remained regular at 228,000 staff over the previous 12 months, however the mixture of roles modified notably, reflecting ongoing shifts within the firm’s workforce.
- Employment in product analysis and growth declined by about 1,000 roles, falling to 80,000 staff worldwide as of June 30, the tip of Microsoft’s 2025 fiscal 12 months.
- The variety of staff in operations roles rose by 3,000, to 89,000.
- Headcount in gross sales and advertising, and basic and administration fell by 1,000 every, to 44,000 and 15,000, respectively.
The brand new numbers have been disclosed Wednesday afternoon within the firm’s annual 10-Okay submitting with the Securities & Alternate Fee, following its fourth quarter earnings report.
The filings replicate an preliminary spherical of layoffs in Could, affecting about 6,000 folks, however not a bigger spherical in early July, impacting about 9,000 staff, which befell simply after the shut of the corporate’s fiscal 12 months.
Experiences on the time of the preliminary layoffs mentioned software program engineers inside the corporate have been impacted disproportionately by the cuts, though Microsoft has mentioned that AI productiveness features weren’t a major issue within the reductions.
The corporate has continued hiring even with its job cuts, ensuing within the flat year-over-year employment quantity total. The numbers are rounded to the closest thousand for functions of the submitting.
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