Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has confirmed the bad news that everyone was expecting today, announcing a wave of 1,600 employees laid off (about eight percent of the company), with another 1,600 expected before the end of the 2027 fiscal year to bring the total to 3,200 jobs lost (20 percent of its whole workforce).
This is just a percentage of the 6,400 total employees planned to lose their jobs at Microsoft as a whole today, with massive changes and closures happening across several of the tech company’s divisions over the next year. And so, many workers will remain at the company while knowing that a bunch more cuts are still to come.
