microsoft announced last month that it will cut around 10000 jobs or about 5 of its workforce over the course of this quarter as part of this process the tech giant has cut jobs in multiple teams including surface devices hololens mixed reality hardware and xbox some 617 workers have reportedly been affected in the latest round of job cuts across teamsjob cuts in microsoft gaming unitciting a person familiar with the matter bloomberg reported that microsoft has reduced the headcount in xbox marketing and the xbox gaming ecosystem groupread alsomicrosoft packs bing search engine edge browser with ai in big challenge to googlemicrosoft is rolling out an intelligent chatbot to live alongside bings search results putting ai that can summarise web pages synthesise disparate sources even compose emails and translate them into more consumers handsclose to 1 lakh tech employees lost jobs in january alone globallyit means that more than 3300 tech employees lost jobs daily on an average by more than 288 companies worldwide barring apple every other big tech firm has slashed jobs led by amazon with 18000 job cuts followed by google with 12000 and microsoft 10000 job cuts in january 2023meanwhile xbox chiefphil spencer sent an email to employees saying i encourage everyone to take the time and space necessary to process these changes and support your colleaguesthe company has also cut jobs in the videogame studio that makes microsofts halo gameslayoffs in hololens unit while microsoft did not provide information on how many people have been fired from the hololens team the company reportedly said it remains committed to the mixed reality space and the current hololens 2 version while we dont comment on specific staffing details we can share there are no changes to hololens 2 and our commitment to mixed reality the company was quoted as sayingindustrial metaverse team laid offfurthermore as per a report by the information microsoft has also fired its entire industrial metaverse team the company created this team four months ago to accelerate the adoption of microsofts mixed reality headset among enterprise customers the team was also responsible for making hololens the new screen for frontline workersjob cuts at githubthe development follows as microsoftowned github also announced that it will lay off 10 of its workforce by the end of this fiscal year github has about 3000 employees and a reduction of 10 means about 300 employees will be fired from the company github also announced that it is shutting down its offices and will completely move to work from home culture github will also continue to freeze hiring unfortunately this will include changes that will result in a reduction of githubs workforce by up to 10 per cent through the end of fy23 the hiring pause that i announced on january 18 remains in effect said github ceo thomas dohmke