Microsoft's Redmond campus is pictured on April 4, 2025, during the company's 50th anniversary celebration. Microsoft is the Puget Sound region's second-largest tech employer, behind Amazon.

In an ongoing effort to trim its workforce, Microsoft said as much as 4%, or roughly 9,000, of the company’s employees could be affected by Wednesday’s layoffs.

Microsoft is laying off thousands of employees, its third round of cuts in recent months, the company confirmed on Wednesday.

Microsoft is set to layoff thousands of employees worldwide Wednesday, including some in the Microsoft Gaming division.

Microsoft announced that it had started cutting the jobs of 9,000 employees.

Microsoft said Wednesday that it will lay off about 9,000 employees. The move will affect less than 4% of its global workforce across different teams, geographies and levels of experience, a ...

Microsoft to Lay Off About 9,000 Employees The reductions followed cuts of about 6,000 positions last quarter, and were indicative of a tightening job market at big technology companies.

SPOKANE — Microsoft employees aren’t getting much time to take a breath between layoff rounds as thousands could be let go in early July, according to news reports.