- Microsoft Shed 203 United Kingdom workers between June 2023 and June 2024
- However, it still has more than 5,000 employees in the United Kingdom
- Microsoft’s income grew 15-16% in that year
According to reports, Microsoft has reduced 203 jobs in its United Kingdom workforce despite healthy financial performance, however, it may not explain a disaster for the company.
The figures come from shared account documents with the Business House (through AM city), revealing that the company had reduced its staff from 5,540 to 5,337 in the year until June 30, 2024.
However, despite the small fall, Microsoft had grown its staff of 4,955 in the previous year, so the mark of the United Kingdom is still considerable size.
Microsoft Trims UK Workforce
Microsoft Limited, the British arm mainly of the company, recorded revenues of £ 9.62 billion in the 12 months prior to June 30, 2024, marking a considerable increase of 15% of £ 8.38 billion in the previous year.
Microsoft as a whole generated $ 245.12 billion in revenues in the same period, in itself a 16% increase on the income of $ 211.92 billion of 2023 in income.
One of the most notable regulatory things that has happened for Microsoft in the United Kingdom The last fiscal year was the cleaning of its association with OpenAi by the Competitive & Markets authority, which ruled that a large -scale investigation would not be required.
However, more recently, two American senators have raised concerns about the Microsoft Association with Openai and the Google Association with Anthrope.
Despite the reduction of the count, Microsoft continues to expand its footprint in the United Kingdom, after having announced plans for a new hyperscala data center near Leeds after the acquisition of a 48 -acre site in June 2023, which had previously been used for an energy station.
This marks the third series of minor layoffs in 2025 (through layoffs. Fyi), and a considerable slowdown of the previous years.
Techradar Pro He has asked Microsoft to share details of the nature of layoffs, but we don’t receive an immediate response.
