2026-04-27 13:15
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2026-04-27 13:15
Senior executive or lower – this level of Microsoft employees cannot sleep peacefully. Bill Gates' company continues to reduce employment. This may affect as many as 16,000. people – according to CNBC. This would be one of the largest single job cuts in the company.
Microsoft laid off over 15,000 people last year. employees. Now the reduction may cover approx. 7 percent the entire crew, which gives the number by 1,000. PLN higher than in 2025, i.e. PLN 16,000. According to media reports, the company assumed that will carry out group layoffs in the form of a “voluntary departure program”which are to cover employees according to age and seniority. If the sum of these two periods exceeds 70, the employee should consider changing his job. This would be the first such wave of job cuts in the company's history.
Microsoft is looking for huge savings
Big tech is cutting costs ruthlessly, seeking funds to finalize its investments in data centers for artificial intelligence.
Just like many other companies from Silicon Valley. The record holder is Oracle, which dismissed over 30,000 people. people. Then in order they are:
- Amazon (16,000 in January and 14,000 in October last year)
- Intel (22 thousand in April 2025)
- Dell (11,000 in March)
- Finish line (8,000 in April).
IT is losing jobs because of AI
As it turns out, over 92,000 people have lost their jobs this year alone. people employed in the IT sector. If we go back to 2020, this number will increase to 900,000. zloty.
This is a fundamental change in the market rather than just a correction, explains expert Anthony Tugge on CNBC.
And although technoenthusiasts argue that AI will only transform human work, so far practice shows otherwise. Claude's tools from Anthropic have already replaced entire business departments. Some studies indicate that the introduction of AI reduces the number of recruitments for entry-level positions, while maintaining a high level of search for AI specialists.
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