Restructuring events
European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
American multinational technology company Microsoft has announced that it will cut 9,000 jobs worldwide.
The cuts will affect staff Ireland, where Microsoft employs about 6,000 people. The company has submitted a collective redundancy notification to Ireland’s Department of Enterprise, though the exact number of affected employees remains unclear. If applied proportionally, as many as 240 jobs in Ireland could be at risk.
This round of layoffs follows two earlier ones in 2025: 6,000 job cuts in May, mainly in product and engineering roles, and about 1,000 in January.
Microsoft has also made significant cuts in recent years, including 10,000 jobs in 2023 Microsoft 2023-WO and 1,900 in its Activision Blizzard and Xbox divisions in 2024 Microsoft 2024-WO.
Eurofound (2025), Microsoft, Internal restructuring in World, factsheet number 203198, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/203198.
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