MixedMay 13, 2025· Technology

Microsoft

On May 13, 2025, Microsoft announced 6,000 job losses. The company cited AI alongside other factors.

Jobs lost

6,000

US jobs

6,000

Workforce

228,000

% of workforce

2.63%

Editorial note

Microsoft began cutting about 6,000 roles, nearly 3% of its workforce, on May 13, 2025, hitting software engineers and product managers hardest. The company framed the cuts generically as organizational changes to "flatten" management layers, not as AI-driven. We tier this Mixed because that efficiency push coincided with Microsoft's roughly $80 billion AI-infrastructure buildout, which press and analysts widely cited as a contributing factor.

Sources

CNBChttps://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/13/microsoft-is-cutting-3percent-of-workers-across-the-software-company.html
PBS NewsHour (AP wire), May 13https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/microsoft-is-laying-off-about-3-of-its-workforce

Market reaction

On the day of announcement, Microsoft stock moved -8.1%.