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Microsoft Fires 4800 as Xbox Division Undergoes Major Reorganization
- ChrisArchitect 3mo agoSource: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/07/06/the-latest-in-our-company-transformation/ https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/07/06/the-latest-in-ou...
- justacrow 3mo agoThanks, that link is a lot better
- KlutzySofa 3mo agohttps://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/07/06/resetting-xbox/ 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.
- deburo 3mo agoI 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.
- sharts 3mo agoIt 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.
- ChrisArchitect 3mo agoMore discussion on the Xbox section: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48804993 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48804993
- dudu24 3mo ago> "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.
- QQ00 3mo agoThe writer didn't even use the bare minimum effort to check.
- arm32 3mo agoSad that it's Xbox's loyal workers who pay the price for Microslop.
- sharts 3mo agoPerhaps their own fault for being loyal in the first place. Jobs aren’t marriage
- ternaryoperator 3mo agoThey were laid odd, not fired. the title is OP’s reinvention of the headline