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Microsoft Cuts 4,800 Jobs While Racing to Hire AI Talent
mint - companies·Thursday, 9 July 2026
Microsoft has laid off 4,800 employees, affecting 2.1% of its global workforce, while simultaneously launching an initiative to deploy 6,000 industry and engineering experts as part of its Microsoft Frontier Co. programme. Most US employees are being offered severance packages of up to 39 weeks of base pay, with options for continued stock vesting and health insurance. The cuts are heaviest at Xbox.
Why It Matters
This is a clear example of the great AI trade-off: companies are shedding existing workers to fund a new wave of AI specialists. It is a pattern being copied across the global tech industry.
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