Layoffs
The latest Layoffs coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Gameskraft Lays Off 400+ Employees as India's Online Gaming Act 2025 Reshapes Industry
The Indian gaming industry is facing its most significant upheaval in years as Gameskraft Technology, one of the country's largest online gaming platforms, has announced massive layoffs affecting...
Microsoft's Trust Reckoning: 9,000 Jobs Cut, Return-to-Office Mandate Fuels Internal Outcry
Microsoft’s stunning $76.4 billion quarter should have been a time of celebration. Instead, the company finds itself grappling with a deepening trust crisis after slashing roughly 9,000 jobs in...
Nadella Confronts Microsoft’s Trust Crisis After Mass Layoffs and Cloud Protests
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has conceded that the company must “do better” in rebuilding employee trust, an extraordinary admission that lands amid the most turbulent period in recent corporate...
Laid Off by Microsoft? Try Using ChatGPT to Cope, Xbox Exec Posted — Then Deleted It
A senior Xbox Game Studios producer published—and swiftly deleted—a LinkedIn post urging colleagues laid off by Microsoft to use generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Copilot to manage not just...
Nadella Pledges to ‘Do Better’ After Layoffs and RTO Mandate Fuel Microsoft Employee Revolt
Satya Nadella stared into a webcam and told thousands of Microsoft employees, “I think we can do better, and we will do better” — a rare public mea culpa from a CEO who has presided over...
Microsoft’s Trust Paradox: Record Profits and Layoffs Fuel Employee Activism as Nadella Pledges Change
Satya Nadella’s blunt admission that Microsoft must “rebuild trust” with its workforce landed like a thunderclap in Redmond, radiating across an industry already grappling with the...
Nadella Vows to 'Do Better' as Microsoft Layoffs Hit 15,000 and Return-to-Office Mandate Locks In
Satya Nadella’s blunt internal acknowledgment—“we can do better, and we will do better”—came not during an earnings call or a scripted keynote, but in a town hall where an employee...
Microsoft Cracks Down on Internal Speech, Terminates Protesters in RTO Mandate Rollout
Microsoft has fired employees who participated in a campus sit-in and will now require most workers to be in the office three days a week, marking a dramatic shift in workplace culture as the company...
Microsoft Mandates Three-Day Office Return by 2026, Shuttering Employee Speech Channels
Microsoft is compelling thousands of its employees back to their desks for a minimum of three days a week by the end of February 2026, a stark shift from its earlier hybrid work embrace that has been...
Microsoft Imposes 3-Day Office Mandate, Puget Sound First in Phased 2026 Rollout
Microsoft will require thousands of employees living within 50 miles of a company office to work onsite at least three days a week, the company announced this week, setting a February 2026 compliance...
Microsoft's Surface Pro Ad Mistakenly Shows iPadOS, Underscoring Brand Credibility Gaps
A promotional post from Microsoft's official Surface account on X this weekend featured a Surface Pro running a screenshot of Word—with an unmistakable iPadOS status bar and visual cues. The error,...
King Slashes 200 Jobs—Laid-Off Staff Say They Trained the AI Now Replacing Them
Roughly 200 employees at Candy Crush studio King were told their jobs are at risk in early July, and multiple internal sources claim the very AI tools they helped build are now being positioned to...