Mumbai : More than 100,000 jobs have been slashed globally in 2025. Leading technology companies like Intel, Meta, and Google are continuing to trim their workforce as they grapple with economic pressures, restructuring efforts, and shifting priorities in the AI era. Microsoft is the latest to announce a fresh round of layoffs, with 9,100 employees set to lose their jobs, primarily in the Xbox and gaming units.
Microsoft has announced one of its largest job cuts this year, laying off 9,100 employees – nearly 4 per cent of its workforce. The layoffs hit its Xbox and gaming divisions especially hard. Xbox head Phil Spencer said the company is “ending or decreasing work in certain areas” to focus on strategic growth. Bloomberg also reported that King, the studio behind Candy Crush, will cut about 200 roles.
Following a reduction of 305 positions in June and earlier performance-based cuts. A insider report highlighted that these terminations included immediate revocation of system access and no healthcare continuation. Some employees also claimed they received no severance pay. The wave of layoffs builds on last year’s job losses at Microsoft, which included 1,900 Activision Blizzard staff, cuts to the Azure cloud and HoloLens teams, and hundreds more at Xbox in September 2024.
Intel is also undergoing a massive restructuring under new CEO Lip-Bu Tan. In July, 107 employees at its Santa Clara headquarters will lose their jobs. The company is also shutting down its automotive chip unit in Germany, laying off nearly the entire team.
Include senior engineers working on chip design, cloud architecture, and even executive roles. Internal memos suggest its chip manufacturing staff will be hit the hardest. Tan has defended the move as part of a broader strategy to eliminate bloated team structures and shift to lean, efficient operations. He said Intel must stop tying leadership success to large headcounts and start empowering smaller, more focused teams.
Amazon, last month, announced that it is cutting jobs in the very division where it began — its Books business. The lay-offs will impact employees across Kindle and Goodreads teams. While fewer than 100 workers were affected, the decision is part of a much wider trend of staggered job cuts at the tech giant. A spokesperson told news agency that the move was part of Amazon’s efforts to “make our teams and programs operate more efficiently, and to better align with our business roadmap.
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