Microsoft Fires 4800 as Xbox Division Undergoes Major Reorganization

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41 points·justacrow··11 comments

> "I recognize that a year-long restructuring creates additional challenges," Sharma said in a passage of the message, according to CNBC. "Unfortunately, it is not possible to make all the necessary changes in a single day." He said the division will return to growth next year.

Whoever wrote this doesn't even know Asha Sharma is a woman.

The writer didn't even use the bare minimum effort to check.

Source: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/07/06/the-latest-in-ou...

More discussion on the Xbox section: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48804993

Thanks, that link is a lot better

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/07/06/resetting-xbox/

This one also has a lot more concrete information on what they are doing, like reducing their layers of management from up to 14 to a maximum of 3-5.

I find it very that a big company ever gets this deep in layers of indirection, but at least they have the guts to restructure. The government rarely does.

It seems silly to “restructure” and then “return to growth” though.

Like, the restructuring is mainly an exercise of managing layers of pointers. Why don’t they ever move around the pointers and keep the people? Save the garbage cleaner process till the very end.

Presumably people who cleared these interview processes are amongst the best and could easily re-train to fit different roles.

Sad that it's Xbox's loyal workers who pay the price for Microslop.

Perhaps their own fault for being loyal in the first place. Jobs aren’t marriage

They were laid odd, not fired. the title is OP’s reinvention of the headline

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