The Rumour Was Right, Today is the Second Large Wave of Microsoft Layoffs in 2025

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 15, 2025

It has only been two weeks since the year began

Early this morning we cited a rumour about "X" day or "x day" (Microsoft mass layoffs) being scheduled for the 15^th. The media helps confirm this now.

The images above are links. The headlines, however, are fact-checked and self-explanatory. Here are some more:

1. Microsoft gaming division hit with further layoffs
2. Microsoft lays off employees in security, experiences and devices, sales, and gaming — separate from performance cuts
3. Microsoft makes more job cuts in its games business
4. Microsoft makes layoffs across several divisions including gaming
5. Microsoft Reportedly Lays Off More Employees
6. Microsoft employees are hit once more by layoffs across multiple groups, including gaming
7. Microsoft to lay off unknown number of staff
8. Microsoft Hit by Yet More Layoffs Across Gaming and Other Divisions
9. Microsoft Holds More Layoffs Across Multiple Departments
10. Microsoft Lays Off More Staff in Gaming Division
11. Microsoft Gaming Division Gets Hit With Additional Layoffs
12. Microsoft Layoffs: Tech Giant Lays Off Employees in Security, Sales and Gaming Division Amid Strategic Measures Not Linked to Performance Job Cuts
13. Microsoft Says Goodbye to Employees in 2025: Reasons Behind Layoffs

We saw several more. Microsoft cannot contain this "bad press".

Microsoft tried to distract from this through media operatives. Will Facebook ("Meta") layoffs be enough to distract from Microsoft?

Microsoft is not a rich company. It's good at faking it. The media plays along with the lies (without even fact-checking). It stages "success" when the reality is massive debt - few companies in debt as large as the total GDP of Taiwan or Poland. █