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trunkswd said:

Microsoft only did one major layoffs before Satya Nadella became CEO and that was 1,400 in January 2009 then 3,600 over the course of 18 months after that. That is a drop in the bucket compared to the layoffs in recent years.

Layoffs under Satya:

• 2014 - 18,000 / 14% of total workforce
• July 2022 - Just over 1,000 / Under 1%
• October 2022 - Nearly 1,000 / Under 0.5%
• January 2023 - 10,000 / 5%
• March 2023 - 689 in Seattle
• May 2023 - 716 at LinkedIn
• September 2023 - 276 - Mainly customer support and sales
• October 2023 - 668 at LinkedIn
• January 2024  - 1,900 from gaming / ~8% of gaming division
• May 2024 - Unknown numbers - Arkane Austin, Tango Gameworks, and Alpha Dog Games shutdown / Roundhouse Studios merged into ZeniMax Online Studios
• Summer 2024 - 1,000 - Mainly Azure division
• September 2024 - 650 from Xbox - Mainly in corporate and support
• January/February 2025 - 2,000 that were "underperforming"
• July 2025 - 9,000 / 4% of total workforce

As you can see layoffs started off slow in 2022 then quickly ramped up.

Total per year:

• 2014 - 18,000
• 2022 - 2,000
• 2023 - 12,349
• 2024 - 3,550 + unknown number when studios were shutdown
• 2025 - 11,000

To be fair, they almost tripled their revenue and doubled their workforce since 2014 so I guess many take overs of other companies happened in that time and those "always" mean layoffs because many positions aren't needed anymore then. 

If Satya was on a bigger take over spree than the MS before him then it's not a surprise that this happens way more now.