Microsoft layoffs 1000 quietly
https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-layoffs-widespread-xbox-azure-government-2022-10 Seems like the usual msft trimming. #layoff Non paywall link https://archive.ph/2022.10.18-013033/https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-layoffs-widespread-xbox-azure-government-2022-10
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Yet they complain about quiet quitting. Proof it is best to ignore them, hypocrites.
13,000 total layoff since 2021. It looks like 1,000 per mth. Reminded me of 1999-2011 days
Everyone is a hero until they get the pink slip. It will be a long deep one for intc. And I hope the best for you
Pink slip?
Can confirm. All kinds of layoff threads in the company group.
Are we able to see those Channels at all somehow? Or you have to be Microsoft to see it?
You have to be at Microsoft
With size of Microsoft, is 1000 a lot to indicate something more widespread to come in tech industry?
Yes. 1000 people getting fired is multiple orgs, likely extremely unprofitable, breakeven, or not worth maintaining. It’ll come to other companies too.
To be clear I see people got fired from reasonably profitable and better orgs too It is quite shocking
I stay have habit of checking my phone / laptop every morning to see if it’s been locked thanks to MSFT in 2010. Don’t bother shaving/driving to work early if it’s locked
Goddamn...
Do they lock your laptop preemptively during layoffs ? I thought you have HR call first.
Microsoft must lose 1000 people to attrition in a month. This is nothing.
This ^
Yeah it's just 0.4% of the workforce. What's interesting to me is they couldn't just wait for normal attrition to reduce numbers? If they needed to cut 1000 people that bad and couldn't wait for attrition, I fear more is coming
There have been many rounds of layoffs. Every time they do under 1 percent and people react that it is nothing but in a year with multiple rounds it adds up to a lot.
The alarming indicator is the timing of it. Microsoft is unique in that their financial year end in July, which means this 1k reduction was not planned rather it's a reaction to reduced earnings. It's a reduction of FTE eng headcount which means the company is slowing down it's investment in the future because it thinks this downturn is going to last for a bit.
Whut? Quiet layoff?