Microsoft could cut 3% of its workforce. How many employees are in Washington?

Melina Khan and Andre Byik, Kitsap Sun

Tue, May 13, 2025, 11:06 AM 1 min read

Microsoft is reportedly laying disconnected astir 3% of its full workforce.

Multiple outlets, including CNBC and The Verge, reported the quality connected May 13. USA TODAY has reached retired to Microsoft for comment.

According to Microsoft's website, the institution employs astir 228,000 workers astir the world, including 126,000 successful the United States arsenic of June 2024. The reported layoffs would permission much than 6,000 radical without jobs.

The quality marks the latest question of tech institution layoffs successful caller years, including respective rounds of cuts astatine Microsoft.

The tech elephantine cut 10,000 jobs successful 2023, and astir 1,900 radical were axed from its Activision Blizzard and Xbox divisions successful 2024.

Microsoft reported successful 2024 that it employed astir 50,000 radical successful Washington state.

It was not instantly wide however galore Washington workers could beryllium laid off.

CNBC reported the cuts would beryllium felt by "employees crossed each levels, teams and geographies."

Microsoft is based successful Redmond, Washington.

Other industry juggernauts, similar Amazon, Meta and Alphabet, person besides handed retired layoffs in the past fewer years.

Many tech companies had massive hiring sprees astatine the opening of the COVID-19 pandemic earlier reversing people successful 2022 arsenic ostentation and involvement rates spiked.

Several economists told USA TODAY earlier this twelvemonth that the waves of layoffs crossed tech whitethorn bespeak that user habits person shifted since the pandemic's start.

Contributing: Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY

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