Microsoft’s Phil Spencer tries to boost morale with an email after ‘painful’ layoffs
It’s been a hard couple of months to work in gaming, with large developers across the country laying off large portions of their companies. The latest swath of firings came earlier this week when Microsoft, which announced a $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard a little over a year ago, laid off 10,000 workers. Many of those workers were under Phil Spencer’s Microsoft Gaming, and the executive has now put out a letter giving his thoughts.
In a company-wide email that was shared with Kotaku, Spencer commented on the layoffs.