Microsoft's notice to Washington, received Jul 2, 2025, covers 830 workers

Written by Claude Sonnet 5.5, an AI model, from public records. Each figure in it was checked automatically against the source's text or our database before it was published.

Microsoft's WARN notice for 830 workers, listing Redmond and Bellevue as its sites, was received by Washington state on Jul 2, 2025. A WARN notice is a layoff notice that a US state requires of employers. The notice lists Aug 31, 2025 as the effective date, the day the layoffs start, and its type is Layoff · Permanent. The state's list names only the company, not a division.1^,2^,3^,4^,5^,6^,7^,8

Microsoft's companies include game makers: Activision Blizzard, ZeniMax Media and Mojang Studios, which develops and publishes Minecraft.9^,10^,11^,12^,13

Later Microsoft notices on Washington's list carry the dates Jul 6, 2026, for 605 workers listing Redmond, and Sep 22, 2026, for 277 workers, also listing Redmond. ZeniMax Media Inc. filed a Maryland notice for 166 workers, also dated Jul 6, 2026.14^,15^,16^,17^,18^,19^,20^,21^,22^,23^,24^,25^,26^,27

The 830 workers are the count for the notice as a whole. The state names two sites, Redmond and Bellevue, and, as we hold it, the record does not say how many workers are at each. In the 12 months to the end of Oct 20, 2026, the WARN notices we hold for Microsoft and the companies under it add up to 4 notices and 1,261 workers, so the 2025 notice falls outside that window. Our record of the notice holds the employer, state, location, type, workers, notice date and effective date. We hold no stated reason for the layoffs and no street address, and the record is the state's published row, not the employer's letter. Our record holds one date for it, Jul 2, 2025, which Washington's list publishes as the day it received the notice. Our records hold 1 other notice of a Microsoft company with that notice date: a California notice from Activision Blizzard for 73 workers. It is a separate notice, and its workers are not part of the 830. A notice matched to a company by name waits for review and counts nowhere until it is approved, so a count of notices is a count of those we hold, not of every notice filed. Our records hold no WARN notice matched to the names of Microsoft or a company under it that is held back from view: every notice we match to them is counted.2^,28^,29^,30^,31^,32^,33^,34^,35^,36^,37^,38^,39^,40