https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/tech-layoffs-2024-job-cuts-at-microsoft-google-apple-and-other-firms/article68572100.ece
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Recently, Intel announced massive job cuts for 15,000 employees accounting for 15% of its workforce in the beginning of August due to weak results
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In January, Microsoft fired 2,000 employees from its gaming unit, sometime after it acquired Activision Blizzard. A second round of layoffs followed in June when Microsoft cut around 1,000 jobs in the tech giant’s cloud business Azure and the HoloLens mixed reality segment.
Then in July, a third round of layoffs were announced in product and programme management roles to streamline organisational processes further. While the company didn’t confirm the number of people who were fired, the layoffs seemed to affect people globally.