Microsoft cuts 4,800 jobs and shrinks Xbox in 'significant restructure'
The sweeping layoffs equate to 2.1% of Microsoft's workforce, with 1,600 immediate job losses at Xbox.
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""These changes are about a bigger future for Xbox, not a smaller one.""
— Asha Sharma , Executive
""Companies don't get to choose whether their industry changes; they only get to choose whether they change with it.""
— Amy Coleman , Executive
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The sweeping layoffs equate to 2.1% of Microsoft's workforce, with 1,600 immediate job losses at Xbox.
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