Microsoft Allegedly Lay Off 1,000 Workers: According to reports, Microsoft has let go of about one thousand people, some of whom worked for the company’s Xbox subsidiary. According to Insider (paywall protected) reports, the layoffs have not been confined to a single department at Microsoft but rather have been implemented throughout the company’s whole workforce.
Microsoft has started layoffs today. I’m hearing some in Experiences + Devices, Xbox, legal, strategic tech positions, and elsewhere are impacted. The layoffs impact less than 1,000 employees, but some veterans and truly talented teams are impacted 😔 https://t.co/TpxABLt8v7
— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) October 18, 2022
Microsoft Allegedly Lay Off 1,000 Workers
According to the source, layoffs have been implemented within Microsoft across many departments, including the Xbox division and the Microsoft Strategic Missions and Technology organization.
It has also come to light that one of the departments that will be shut down totally is called Studio Alpha. This department was established as a “serious gaming effort” with the goal of developing cloud-based wargame simulations for use by both military and commercial clients.
Greg Chapman, who served as a lead architect at Studio Alpha, said in a tweet that he and his whole team had been terminated from their positions there.
Chapman said in a tweet, “Whelp, this has been quite the journey.” “Today, my whole team and I were let go from our jobs. 12 years with Microsoft, and 25 years overall in the game development industry. Details will be forthcoming as soon as the first shock has worn off.”
KC Lemson, who began her career at Microsoft in 1998 as a Software Test Engineer and was most recently a group product/program manager, revealed on Twitter that she was one of the employees who had been terminated from their positions at the company. Lemson was one of the employees who had been laid off.
She sent the following message on Twitter: “Welp, who’s got two thumbs and just got laid off at Microsoft this morning? The year 2022 has been pretty eventful.
According to reports, Microsoft’s Mission Engineering team, which focused on space technology, has also been affected. Employees of the Mission Engineering team were informed in an email that the group would be “deprioritizing work already underway,” and that team leaders would be working with staff who are “part of a prioritization change” to “wrap up existing work and determine the next steps.”
A spokeswoman for Microsoft issued the following comment to Insider: “Like any other company, we analyze our business goals on a regular basis and make structural modifications in accordance with those evaluations. In the next year, we plan to keep making investments in our company and adding employees in strategic development areas.
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