{"id":87170,"date":"2024-01-26T01:31:56","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T06:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=87170"},"modified":"2024-01-26T01:20:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T06:20:50","slug":"microsoft-lays-off-1900-workers-nearly-9-of-gaming-division-after-activision-blizzard-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2024\/microsoft-lays-off-1900-workers-nearly-9-of-gaming-division-after-activision-blizzard-acquisition.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft lays off 1,900 workers, nearly 9% of gaming division, after Activision Blizzard acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/MSFT\/\">Microsoft<\/a> will lay off around 1,900 employees in its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/10\/13\/microsoft-closes-activision-blizzard-deal-after-regulatory-review.html\">gaming unit<\/a>, or around 9% of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/07\/10\/microsoft-confirms-more-job-cuts-on-top-of-10000-layoffs-in-january.html\">headcount<\/a>, according to a Thursday memo obtained by CNBC. Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer said that the layoffs were part of a larger \u201cexecution plan\u201d that would reduce \u201careas of overlap,\u201d a little more than three months after Microsoft closed on its acquisition of Activision Blizzard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/01\/25\/microsoft-lays-off-1900-workers-nearly-9percent-of-gaming-division-after-activision-blizzard-acquisition.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Microsoft will lay off around 1,900 employees in its gaming unit, or around 9% of headcount, according to a Thursday memo obtained by CNBC. Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer said that the layoffs were part of a larger \u201cexecution [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87171,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87170\/revisions\/87171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}