Microsoft layoffs: Read the email Xbox CEO Asha Sharma sent employees

The gaming division was hit the hardest, with 1,600 roles eliminated today and 3,200 more to be impacted throughout the next year.

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma [Source Photos: Getty Images]

Last month, there were murmurs that “major job cuts” were coming for Xbox.

Now, Microsoft is cutting 4,800 roles, with 1,600 impacting its Xbox division today. In an email to employees, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma called it “the most significant restructuring in Xbox........

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