Business06/15/2017@ThePinGang
Microsoft to cut 18,000 jobs in the next year
Microsoft…
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Microsoft has announced that it will lay off up to 18,000 workers in the next year, in what is by far the largest number of employees that will be cut by the company in its history. In a letter sent to employees earlier this morning that Microsoft also released to the public, company CEO Satya Nadella confirmed that 12,500 of the job losses will be due to the company's acquisition of Nokia's Devices and Services division in April, when it added 25,000 new workers.
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Gaming09/23/2026@TechDesk
Microsoft Cuts Hundreds More Jobs, Moves Next Halo Game to Activision
Microsoft…Microsoft Redmond East Campus, Overlake, Redmond, King County, Washington, United States
Starts 09/22/2026CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE1 day agoMatt Booty's memo on Xbox^[1] Wire, dated September 22, 2026, says "we are eliminating 268 roles across Halo Studios, other first-party studios, and the XGS management and central functions layer", and GeekWire^[2] reports the wider cuts were made "on Tuesday morning" the same day.
Xbox eliminated 268 roles across Halo Studios, other first-party studios and its management layer, part of fewer than 600 Microsoft cuts worldwide, and handed the next Halo game to a new Activision team; Ninja Theory now faces a proposed closure.
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Labour09/23/2026@EconDesk
Sony Lays Off Most of Bungie's Destiny Team
BungieBungie, Inc., 550, 106th Avenue Northeast, Bellevue, King County, Washington, 98004, United States
Starts 06/25/2026CONFIRMED 89% CONFIDENCE90 days agoHermen Hulst's email, posted on the SIE blog on June 25, 2026: "Today I want to share a difficult update regarding Bungie... Those impacted at Bungie and within SIE are being informed today."^[1]
Sony cut a significant share of Bungie, including most of the Destiny team and some Marathon staff; a Washington WARN filing counts 292 jobs at its Bellevue studio, from a headcount of about 800.
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Labour09/23/2026@EconDesk
Zillow Lays Off Just Over 500 Employees
1301, 2nd Avenue, West Edge, Belltown, Seattle, King County, Washington, 98101, United StatesZillow…
Starts 08/04/2026CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE50 days agoJeremy Wacksman's post, "Written by Jeremy Wacksman on August 4, 2026", says "Today, Zillow^[1] announced organizational changes that will result in just over 500 employees leaving the company."
Zillow laid off just over 500 employees, about 7% of its workforce, in its second and largest cut of 2026, a day before its second-quarter results.
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Labour09/23/2026@EconDesk
Etsy Cuts About 12% of Its Workforce
Etsy, Inc., 117, Adams Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, 11201, United StatesEtsy…
Starts 08/05/2026CONFIRMED 91% CONFIDENCE49 days agoEtsy's Form 8-K says "On August 5, 2026, Etsy issued an employee communication relating to the Restructuring Plan", and the memo says "today we're announcing changes to our organization"; CNBC^[3]: "Etsy said Wednesday it's laying off about 220 employees".
Etsy is laying off about 220 employees, roughly 12% of its workforce, mostly in product and engineering, leaving about 1,600 people.
$35M
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Labour09/23/2026@EconDesk
Rackspace Cuts About 15% of Its Workforce to Pivot to Enterprise AI
Rackspace…Rackspace Global Headquarters, Suite 128, US Highway 281 North, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, 78258, United States
Starts 06/10/2026CONFIRMED 86% CONFIDENCE105 days agoRackspace's Form 8-K says "On June 10, 2026, the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company approved a workforce realignment plan" and "A majority of the impacted employees were notified on or around June 10, 2026".^[1]
Rackspace is cutting about 15% of its global workforce, roughly 750 of some 5,000 employees, mostly in legacy public-cloud services, to redeploy money into enterprise AI.
$16.5M
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Labour09/23/2026@EconDesk
Omnicom Sets Out About 15,000 Job Reductions by the End of 2026
280, Park Avenue, Midtown East, Manhattan Community Board 5, Manhattan, New York County, New York, 10172, United StatesOmnicom…
Starts 09/10/2026CONFIRMED 85% CONFIDENCE13 days agoOmnicom's 4 September 2026 release says CFO Phil Angelastro would present at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference "on Thursday, September 10, 2026 at 8:10 a.m. Pacific Time"; the transcript of that session has him say 105,000 is "a pretty good estimate" for headcount "by the end of the year 2026", down from "about 120,000".^[1]
Omnicom expects to end 2026 with about 105,000 staff, roughly 15,000 or an eighth fewer than the 120,000 it had after buying Interpublic, through merger cuts, outsourcing, offshoring and disposals.
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Retail09/21/2026@RetailDesk
Toys "R" Us Says It Will Close Every US Store
Wayne, New Jersey, United StatesToys "R" Us
Starts 03/15/2018CONFIRMED 82% CONFIDENCE8.5 years agoThe announcement that the US business would liquidate was made on 15 March 2018, the date carried by the company's own statement and contemporaneous reporting.^[1]
The chain told its staff it would wind down or sell all 735 of its US stores, ending a company that had defined the category-killer format for forty years. A leveraged buyout in 2005 left it carrying about $5bn of debt it never worked off.
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Labour09/23/2026@EconDesk
Apple Cuts 200+ Jobs in Vision Pro and Siri Teams
Apple…Apple Park Way, Cupertino, Santa Clara County, California, 95129, United States
Starts 08/21/2026CONFIRMED 85% CONFIDENCE33 days ago9to5Mac^[1], Aug 21 2026: "Apple is cutting jobs across multiple teams, according to a new Bloomberg report. All told, the company has cut more than 200 jobs across teams working on Vision Pro, Siri, and software engineering", with Apple's statement confirming the cuts.
Apple cut more than 200 jobs, about 100 in its Vision Products Group, largely shutting its Vision Pro gaming team and shrinking immersive video, and about 100 in Siri and software as it shifts to Siri AI.
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Cybersecurity09/23/2026@CyberDesk
Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday Fixes a Record 966 Flaws
Microsoft…One Microsoft Way, Redmond, United States
Starts 09/08/2026 5:00PMCONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE15 days agoStated as firm, per bleepingcomputer.com^[1] (8 September 2026): "Today is Microsoft's^[6] September 2026 Patch Tuesday"; the time is Microsoft Learn's "second Tuesday of each month, typically at 10:00 AM Pacific Time", 17:00 UTC under daylight time.
Microsoft's largest security update ever patches 966 vulnerabilities, including two Windows privilege-escalation zero-days already exploited in attacks and 105 rated Critical.
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Finance09/23/2026@TechDesk
Microsoft FY27 Q1 Earnings Release and Conference Call
Microsoft Redmond East Campus, Overlake, Redmond, King County, Washington, United StatesMicrosoft…
Starts 10/28/2026 9:30PMESTIMATED 67% CONFIDENCEin 35 daysMicrosoft^[1][2][4] has not named the date (its investor site says "The next earnings release will be announced soon"); its last eight results 8-Ks on SEC EDGAR were all filed on the last Wednesday of the month after the quarter (FY26 Q1 on 29 October 2025, then 28 January, 29 April and 29 July 2026), each with a conference call "at 2:30 p.m. Pacific time (5:30 p.m. Eastern time)", so Wednesday 28 October 2026 at 2:30 p.m. PDT (21:30 UTC) is estimated; Wall Street Horizon^[3] also lists it "UNCONFIRMED for Wednesday 10/28/2026 After Market", while some calendars show 27 October.
Microsoft is expected to report its first fiscal 2027 quarter after the market close, most likely on Wednesday 28 October, and discuss it on a 2:30 p.m. Pacific webcast; the previous quarter brought $90.0 billion of revenue, up 18%.
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Gaming06/15/2017@ThePinGang
Xbox One Kinect stand-alone to hit the market
One Microsoft Way, Redmond, United StatesMicrosoft…
Starts 10/06/2014CONFIRMED 78% CONFIDENCE12.0 years agoHappened as dated, per wpcentral.com^[1]: "Your membership journey starts here. Keep exploring and earning more as a member. La…"
Ever since Microsoft decoupled the Kinect sensor from the Xbox One, the one lingering question was when would they sell it as a stand-alone unit? Offering an Xbox One without the Kinect sensor made financial sense in Microsoft's struggle against Sony, but it does not mean that people may never want to want to buy the Kinect at a later point. Until now though, there was no option to do so. Windows Phone Central has now learned that Microsoft is planning to sell the stand-alone Kinect sensor for $149 beginning on or around October 6. The timing is ideal as it leads well into the holiday season in the US and other countries, making the add-on an excellent gift for those who already own an Xbox One without the next-gen accessory.
$149.00
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Amy Coleman's memo, posted on the Official Microsoft^[1] Blog on Jul 6, 2026, says "Today we are eliminating around 4,800 roles, about 2.1% of our global workforce", and Asha Sharma's memo the same day says "This will include approximately 1,600 role eliminations today".

Start: Jul 6, 202690% CONFIDENCEfrom the source

Microsoft Lays Off About 4,800 Across Xbox and Commercial Sales

Microsoft eliminated around 4,800 roles, about 2.1% of its workforce, mostly in Xbox and its commercial business; Xbox cut 1,600 that day on the way to about 3,200 through fiscal 2027 and let four studios go to new management.

On 6 July 2026 Microsoft told employees it was eliminating around 4,800 roles, about 2.1% of its global workforce, mostly in its Commercial and Xbox organisations; chief people officer Amy Coleman wrote that the roles "are not being replaced by AI"^[1][3].
In the commercial business the cuts build on the previous week's Frontier Company announcement, which embeds Microsoft's engineers alongside customers^[1]; TechCrunch reports that unit is backed by a $2.5 billion investment^[3].
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma called it "the most significant restructure in XBOX history": about 3,200 fewer roles through fiscal 2027, roughly 20% of the division, 1,600 of them that day^[2][5].
Sharma wrote that Xbox operates at margins 3-10x lower than comparable platform and publishing businesses and, in a typical year, lost 64 cents for every dollar it invested in studios^[2][5].
Compulsion Games and Double Fine return to independence with their IP, Ninja Theory and Undead Labs go to new owners to finish Senua and State of Decay 3, and Arkane in France begins works-council consultation; no publicly announced first-party game is cancelled^[2][5].
Helen Chiang becomes Xbox's first chief operating officer with end-to-end P&L across content, hardware, platform and services, Dave McCarthy retires, and management layers fall from as many as 14 to no more than five^[2][5].
Microsoft says more than 30% of eligible employees took its voluntary retirement program and it redeployed over 4,000 people into new roles in the past year^[1]; its shares fell nearly 23% in the first half of 2026^[4].

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blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/07/06/the-latest-in-our-company-transformation
blogs.microsoft.com· Posted Sep 23, 2026· Starts Jul 6, 2026 ✓· 25% of score
Amy Coleman's memo, posted on the Official Microsoft Blog on Jul 6, 2026, says "Today we are eliminating around 4,800 roles, about 2.1% of our global workforce", and Asha Sharma's memo the same day says "This will include approximately 1,600 role eliminations today".
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Resetting XBOX
news.xbox.com· Published Jul 6, 2026· 19% of score
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma's memo on Xbox Wire, posted the same morning: about 3,200 fewer Xbox roles through FY27 including "approximately 1,600 role eliminations today", four studios leaving Xbox and a new COO.
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Microsoft lays off nearly 5,000 employees across Xbox, commercial sales
techcrunch.com· Published Jul 6, 2026· 19% of score
TechCrunch reports Microsoft^[1] cut around 4,800 roles, 2.1% of its workforce, on Monday 6 July, with Xbox^[2] losing 1,600 that day, quoting both memos.
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Microsoft to cut 4,800 jobs, joining the wave of AI-driven tech layoffs
nbcnews.com· Published Jul 6, 2026· 19% of score
NBC News reports the roughly 4,800 cuts announced Monday, two-thirds at Xbox^[2] and the rest in the commercial division, from the Coleman and Sharma memos.
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A 'painful' reset for Xbox: 3,200 job cuts, studio spinoffs, and a vow to return to growth in 2027
geekwire.com· Published Jul 6, 2026· 19% of score
GeekWire reports about 1,600 Xbox^[2] cuts taking effect Monday as part of 4,800 layoffs across Microsoft^[1], with the studio spinoffs and new COO.

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Business06/15/2017@ThePinGang
Microsoft to cut 18,000 jobs in the next year
Microsoft…
07/16/2014 - 07/17/2014 CONFIRMED 90% CONFIDENCE12.2 years agoHappened as dated, per wpcentral.com^[1]: "Your membership journey starts here. Keep exploring and earning more as a member. La…"
Microsoft has announced that it will lay off up to 18,000 workers in the next year, in what is by far the largest number of employees that will be cut by the company in its history. In a letter sent to employees earlier this morning that Microsoft also released to the public, company CEO Satya Nadella confirmed that 12,500 of the job losses will be due to the company's acquisition of Nokia's Devices and Services division in April, when it added 25,000 new workers.
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Gaming09/23/2026@TechDesk
Microsoft Cuts Hundreds More Jobs, Moves Next Halo Game to Activision
Microsoft…Microsoft Redmond East Campus, Overlake, Redmond, King County, Washington, United States
Starts 09/22/2026CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE1 day agoMatt Booty's memo on Xbox^[1] Wire, dated September 22, 2026, says "we are eliminating 268 roles across Halo Studios, other first-party studios, and the XGS management and central functions layer", and GeekWire^[2] reports the wider cuts were made "on Tuesday morning" the same day.
Xbox eliminated 268 roles across Halo Studios, other first-party studios and its management layer, part of fewer than 600 Microsoft cuts worldwide, and handed the next Halo game to a new Activision team; Ninja Theory now faces a proposed closure.
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Labour09/23/2026@EconDesk
Sony Lays Off Most of Bungie's Destiny Team
BungieBungie, Inc., 550, 106th Avenue Northeast, Bellevue, King County, Washington, 98004, United States
Starts 06/25/2026CONFIRMED 89% CONFIDENCE90 days agoHermen Hulst's email, posted on the SIE blog on June 25, 2026: "Today I want to share a difficult update regarding Bungie... Those impacted at Bungie and within SIE are being informed today."^[1]
Sony cut a significant share of Bungie, including most of the Destiny team and some Marathon staff; a Washington WARN filing counts 292 jobs at its Bellevue studio, from a headcount of about 800.
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Labour09/23/2026@EconDesk
Zillow Lays Off Just Over 500 Employees
1301, 2nd Avenue, West Edge, Belltown, Seattle, King County, Washington, 98101, United StatesZillow…
Starts 08/04/2026CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE50 days agoJeremy Wacksman's post, "Written by Jeremy Wacksman on August 4, 2026", says "Today, Zillow^[1] announced organizational changes that will result in just over 500 employees leaving the company."
Zillow laid off just over 500 employees, about 7% of its workforce, in its second and largest cut of 2026, a day before its second-quarter results.
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Labour09/23/2026@EconDesk
Etsy Cuts About 12% of Its Workforce
Etsy, Inc., 117, Adams Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, 11201, United StatesEtsy…
Starts 08/05/2026CONFIRMED 91% CONFIDENCE49 days agoEtsy's Form 8-K says "On August 5, 2026, Etsy issued an employee communication relating to the Restructuring Plan", and the memo says "today we're announcing changes to our organization"; CNBC^[3]: "Etsy said Wednesday it's laying off about 220 employees".
Etsy is laying off about 220 employees, roughly 12% of its workforce, mostly in product and engineering, leaving about 1,600 people.
$35M
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Labour09/23/2026@EconDesk
Rackspace Cuts About 15% of Its Workforce to Pivot to Enterprise AI
Rackspace…Rackspace Global Headquarters, Suite 128, US Highway 281 North, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, 78258, United States
Starts 06/10/2026CONFIRMED 86% CONFIDENCE105 days agoRackspace's Form 8-K says "On June 10, 2026, the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company approved a workforce realignment plan" and "A majority of the impacted employees were notified on or around June 10, 2026".^[1]
Rackspace is cutting about 15% of its global workforce, roughly 750 of some 5,000 employees, mostly in legacy public-cloud services, to redeploy money into enterprise AI.
$16.5M
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Labour09/23/2026@EconDesk
Omnicom Sets Out About 15,000 Job Reductions by the End of 2026
280, Park Avenue, Midtown East, Manhattan Community Board 5, Manhattan, New York County, New York, 10172, United StatesOmnicom…
Starts 09/10/2026CONFIRMED 85% CONFIDENCE13 days agoOmnicom's 4 September 2026 release says CFO Phil Angelastro would present at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference "on Thursday, September 10, 2026 at 8:10 a.m. Pacific Time"; the transcript of that session has him say 105,000 is "a pretty good estimate" for headcount "by the end of the year 2026", down from "about 120,000".^[1]
Omnicom expects to end 2026 with about 105,000 staff, roughly 15,000 or an eighth fewer than the 120,000 it had after buying Interpublic, through merger cuts, outsourcing, offshoring and disposals.
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Retail09/21/2026@RetailDesk
Toys "R" Us Says It Will Close Every US Store
Wayne, New Jersey, United StatesToys "R" Us
Starts 03/15/2018CONFIRMED 82% CONFIDENCE8.5 years agoThe announcement that the US business would liquidate was made on 15 March 2018, the date carried by the company's own statement and contemporaneous reporting.^[1]
The chain told its staff it would wind down or sell all 735 of its US stores, ending a company that had defined the category-killer format for forty years. A leveraged buyout in 2005 left it carrying about $5bn of debt it never worked off.
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Labour09/23/2026@EconDesk
Apple Cuts 200+ Jobs in Vision Pro and Siri Teams
Apple…Apple Park Way, Cupertino, Santa Clara County, California, 95129, United States
Starts 08/21/2026CONFIRMED 85% CONFIDENCE33 days ago9to5Mac^[1], Aug 21 2026: "Apple is cutting jobs across multiple teams, according to a new Bloomberg report. All told, the company has cut more than 200 jobs across teams working on Vision Pro, Siri, and software engineering", with Apple's statement confirming the cuts.
Apple cut more than 200 jobs, about 100 in its Vision Products Group, largely shutting its Vision Pro gaming team and shrinking immersive video, and about 100 in Siri and software as it shifts to Siri AI.
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Cybersecurity09/23/2026@CyberDesk
Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday Fixes a Record 966 Flaws
Microsoft…One Microsoft Way, Redmond, United States
Starts 09/08/2026 5:00PMCONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE15 days agoStated as firm, per bleepingcomputer.com^[1] (8 September 2026): "Today is Microsoft's^[6] September 2026 Patch Tuesday"; the time is Microsoft Learn's "second Tuesday of each month, typically at 10:00 AM Pacific Time", 17:00 UTC under daylight time.
Microsoft's largest security update ever patches 966 vulnerabilities, including two Windows privilege-escalation zero-days already exploited in attacks and 105 rated Critical.
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Finance09/23/2026@TechDesk
Microsoft FY27 Q1 Earnings Release and Conference Call
Microsoft Redmond East Campus, Overlake, Redmond, King County, Washington, United StatesMicrosoft…
Starts 10/28/2026 9:30PMESTIMATED 67% CONFIDENCEin 35 daysMicrosoft^[1][2][4] has not named the date (its investor site says "The next earnings release will be announced soon"); its last eight results 8-Ks on SEC EDGAR were all filed on the last Wednesday of the month after the quarter (FY26 Q1 on 29 October 2025, then 28 January, 29 April and 29 July 2026), each with a conference call "at 2:30 p.m. Pacific time (5:30 p.m. Eastern time)", so Wednesday 28 October 2026 at 2:30 p.m. PDT (21:30 UTC) is estimated; Wall Street Horizon^[3] also lists it "UNCONFIRMED for Wednesday 10/28/2026 After Market", while some calendars show 27 October.
Microsoft is expected to report its first fiscal 2027 quarter after the market close, most likely on Wednesday 28 October, and discuss it on a 2:30 p.m. Pacific webcast; the previous quarter brought $90.0 billion of revenue, up 18%.
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Gaming06/15/2017@ThePinGang
Xbox One Kinect stand-alone to hit the market
One Microsoft Way, Redmond, United StatesMicrosoft…
Starts 10/06/2014CONFIRMED 78% CONFIDENCE12.0 years agoHappened as dated, per wpcentral.com^[1]: "Your membership journey starts here. Keep exploring and earning more as a member. La…"
Ever since Microsoft decoupled the Kinect sensor from the Xbox One, the one lingering question was when would they sell it as a stand-alone unit? Offering an Xbox One without the Kinect sensor made financial sense in Microsoft's struggle against Sony, but it does not mean that people may never want to want to buy the Kinect at a later point. Until now though, there was no option to do so. Windows Phone Central has now learned that Microsoft is planning to sell the stand-alone Kinect sensor for $149 beginning on or around October 6. The timing is ideal as it leads well into the holiday season in the US and other countries, making the add-on an excellent gift for those who already own an Xbox One without the next-gen accessory.
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