- Microsoft Shed 203 British workers between June 2023 and June 2024
- However, it has even more than 5,000 employees in the United Kingdom
- Microsoft’s income increased by 15 to 16% that year
Microsoft would have reduced 203 jobs in his British workforce despite healthy financial performance, but that may not express a disaster for the company.
The figures come from account documents shared with house companies (via City AM), revealing that the company had reduced its workforce by 5,540 to 5,337 from the year to June 30, 2024.
However, despite the small fall, Microsoft had increased its workforce by 4,955 the previous year, so the British imprint is still of considerable size.
Microsoft Trims Uk WorkForce
Microsoft Limited, the British arm mainly of the company, recorded 9.62 billion pounds of income in the 12 months preceding on June 30, 2024, marking a considerable increase of 15% compared to 8.38 billion pounds Sterling the previous year.
Microsoft as a whole generated 245.12 billion dollars in revenues during the same period – itself an increase of 16% compared to the $ 211.92 billion 2023 saw income.
One of the most notable regulatory things that had happened for Microsoft in the United Kingdom for Microsoft The last financial year was the compensation for its partnership with OPENAI by the Authority competition & markets, which judged that a large-scale survey would not be necessary.
However, more recently, two American senators have raised concerns concerning Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI and Openai’s partnership with Anthropic.
Despite the reduction in staff, Microsoft continues to extend its footprint to the United Kingdom, after having announced plans for a new hyperscal data center near Leeds after the acquisition of a 48 acres site in June 2023, which had already been used for a power plant.
This marks the third series of minor layoffs in 2025 (via layoffs.Fyi) and a considerable slowdown compared to previous years.
Techradar Pro Asked Microsoft to share the details of the nature of the layoffs, but we did not receive an immediate response.
