Microsoft is cutting roughly 3% of its global workforce as the company shifts more resources toward the race to develop advanced artificial intelligence, the company confirmed on Tuesday.

The move follows a smaller round of performance-based layoffs in January and marks a shift from the aggressive hiring of the pandemic years.

Explore Microsoft's strategic 2025 layoffs affecting 6,000 employees while investing $80B in AI. Learn how this reshapes the tech industry, impacts jobs, and signals a broader shift in workforce dynamics.

Companies such as UPS, Meta, Microsoft, BlackRock, and Block are conducting layoffs. Artificial intelligence is reshaping some workforces. See the list of companies letting workers go in 2025.

Today is Microsoft's May 2025 Patch Tuesday, which includes security updates for 72 flaws, including five actively exploited and two publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities.

The separation programme, being called the GVSA, at the company, will no longer be eligible for the payout and will have just five days to make a final decision, as per the report. Key features of ...