Report About February Mass Layoffs at Microsoft (Third Wave of Microsoft Layoffs in 2025) Comes Back From the Dead
WHENEVER an article about Microsoft - one that is unflattering to Microsoft - gets taken down, well... be suspicious. Microsoft tends to bribe and blackmail people. Many articles about Microsoft are fake and paid for by Microsoft. Microsoft is generally a company that attracts many criminals to join its ranks. It's the "work culture". That's how Microsoft treats the media too.
Yesterday we wrote about an article in CRN (reporting Microsoft layoffs) being removed without any reasons specified.
It has finally been restored: Microsoft Layoffs Hit Cloud Solution Architects, Customer Roles
It was taken down a day ago: Possibly a Third Round of Mass Layoffs at Microsoft in 2025 ("Cloud Solution Architects, Customer Roles"), Report Removed or Censored
Based on how Wade Tyler Millward puts it, it was likely taken down due to pressure from Microsoft and now it contains face-saving quotes, starting with: "'Organizational and workforce adjustments are a necessary and regular part of managing our business,' a Microsoft spokesperson tells CRN." (That's how the article starts, based on the wrong assumption Microsoft tells the truth)
Why are they starting this article with "a Microsoft spokesperson"? Because they received some threats demanding that Microsoft's own PR precedes everything?
Here is the 'beef' of the article:
Former employees with the vendor saying they were let go on Microsoft-owned LinkedIn include:- A technical program manager with the company for about three years
- A level two designer working on Azure Cloud and AI who was with the company for about three years
- A senior research scientist for responsible AI with the company for about eight years
- A customer experience manager with the company for about five years
- A cloud solution architect with the company for about six years
- A cloud solution architect with the company for about 10 years
- A senior customer success account manager with the company for about six years
- A level two program manager with the company for about 12 years
- A medical documents writer with the company and its Nuance subsidiary for about four years
- A quality documentation (QD) administrator with Microsoft and its Nuance subsidiary for about five years
A lot of the article is now "a Microsoft spokesperson". That probably explains why the article was taken down yesterday. Typical Microsoft.
Meanwhile there are also new reports of IBM layoffs in 'RTO' clothing (reporting by Thomas Claburn). █