The tech giant intends to reduce organizational layers by having fewer managers and streamlining its products, procedures and ...

The reductions followed cuts of about 6,000 positions last quarter, and were indicative of a tightening job market at big ...

Brad Smith defends Microsoft layoffs, addresses AI’s role, and explains the company’s $4B workforce initiative amid a major ...

Microsoft has laid off over 15,000 employees across multiple divisions in 2025 and is now urging its remaining workforce to ...

The ratings are used to determine employees' "rewards," Microsoft's term for pay and bonuses. Microsoft calls the new ratings "impact descriptors" and, in a guide for managers viewed by Insider ...

Microsoft this year introduced new performance ratings it calls "impact descriptors," used to determine pay. The new ratings, visible only to managers, include "Lower Impact Than Expected (LITE ...

Employees now have to show how they’re making a security impact for their performance reviews. Security is now officially a top priority inside Microsoft. Skip to main content ...

Microsoft confirmed that it’s laying off as many as 9,100 employees, or about 4 percent of its workforce, in yet another ...

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

Microsoft announced on Tuesday that it’s laying off more than 6,000 employees, around three percent of the company’s entire workforce. These are the biggest job cuts at Microsoft since it laid ...

Editor’s note: this story was updated in February of 2020 Until La Shanda Hurst took the mic, the conference room full of new Microsoft employees was quiet enough to hear a PowerPoint slide click. On ...

Microsoft has again broken its record for employee giving, donating $142 million to nearly 19,000 charities last year. That’s a 14 percent increase over Toggle search box Toggle navigation ...