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It will be normal for companies to win more money with fewer people

Microsoft is at your best economic moment. At the same time, he is saying goodbye to Much of its template in different departments and key divisions such as Xbox and some of their European studies. The paradox of the company led by Satya Nadella is clear: it is completely normal for companies to win more money with fewer people.

The layoffs. The Microsoft case is no exception, it is the new present in the Tech industry. In May fired more than 6,000 employeesabout 3% of its global workforce. In July, I added to the list other 9,000 workers. “Organizational changes necessary to better position the company in a dynamic market,” According to Microsoft spokesmen.

The company carries cleaning template since January 2023an added to salary freezing and bonus cuts and incentives for its employees.

The figures. Microsoft has closed its last fiscal quarter with income of 64.7 billion dollarsan interannual growth of 15% and a stock capitalization greater than 3.7 billion dollars at the time of writing this article. A you against Nvidia to be the most quoted company in the world.

The paradox. Since 2023, the estimated total of dismissals in Microsoft exceeds 30,000. Meanwhile.

  • Historical record in quarterly income.
  • Record in net benefits.
  • Record for action per share.
  • Stock capitalization record.

Microsoft is leading the company model towards which the technology industry is directed: more income, more efficiency and less workers.

The context. Since 2022, layoffs are becoming usual. They do not arrive in a context of recession, they arrive in the midst of an increase in the valuations of technological actions. They are an integrated routine, in cases like Microsoft’s, in the company’s quarterly planning itself.

Far away is the post -financial stage of 2008, with the United States keeping interest rates and investment in Big Tech absolutely triggered. A phenomenon that continued after Pandemia, with the great technology overcome and entering a war for talent.

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Screen capture 08 07 2025 to 11 49 27 am

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Where are we going. Since 2022, great technology have stopped the Race for hiring and entered a completely different phase. It is forecast that about 200,000 technology employees will be fired in 2025. A figure still distant from The 400,000 that were recorded in 2023but symptom of a trend that will not be reversed. Mainly for three reasons.

Because. In the years immediately after pandemic, technological ones launched themselves to an aggressive hiring strategy. Thousands and thousands of job offers in a context after which Andy Jassy himself, CEO of Amazon, admitted that had hired too much people.

Superstar. Although the wave of dismissals sounds like a crisis for workers in the Tech sector (because there are), the sector giants are raffling the most specialized profiles.

The focus is on attract talent to win in AIturning engineers In the new players. The division is clear: thousands of workers going to the street, and engineers signing with seven -digit salaries. And, along the way, companies earning more money than ever.

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