Microsoft’s bet for artificial intelligence causes a new wave of layoffs of 9000 employees

Microsoft has started its new fiscal year with the announcement of a new restructuring that will affect approximately 9,000 employeesequivalent to approximately the 4% of its global template. This decision raises the total cuts from May to More than 15,000 eliminated positionsin one of the greatest rounds of layoffs of its recent history.

Although layoffs affect several divisions, including Sales, marketing and video gamesthe company has made it clear that they are not related to the individual performance of employees. Instead, they respond to a broader strategy to optimize internal structure and adapt to The new technological prioritieswith the artificial intelligence As a central axis.

In other words, what Microsoft seeks is to lighten its template to have more resources for the development of AI. It is an area in which Microsoft plans allocate more than 80,000 million dollars this fiscal year. A significant part of that capital will be aimed at strengthening its infrastructure, especially in data centers and computing power, with the aim of respond to the growing demand for services based on AI. This strategy is part of its long -term plans, in which technologies such as Azure ai, COPILOT and latest generation language models They are an absolute priority.

In previous rounds of layoffs, the most impacted positions have been those of Software engineers and product managersprofiles where Microsoft’s own tools are already beginning to automate routine tasks, which has also influenced decision -making.

This general restructuring of the company has affected other areas of the company. In fact, we recently informed you that Microsoft was preparing layoffs in the Xbox division, something that has been happening for years, especially in this department. In September 2024, we echoed that 650 workers would be part of a new cut and in May of this year there were 6000 more layoffs.