Another new year, another round of layoffs at Microsoft
www.theregister.com
Redmond claims tiny cuts are performance based

„Less than 1%” = up to 2880 people.

  • sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    53·
    10 months ago

    Unidentified sources who spoke to BI claimed Microsoft would likely backfill the jobs cut this month, meaning there wouldn’t be much of a reduction in overall headcount. Microsoft confirmed this to be the case.

    This sounds more like a mass firing than layoffs, but I guess that’s semantics.

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldEnglish
      46·
      9 months ago

      This sounds like the Circuit City paradigm, which is to fire all your expensive experienced workers and try to fill their roles with fresh-faced grads or, more likely, H1B people from India at the absolute minimum pay scale.

      And we saw how that worked for Circuit City.

      • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
        171·
        9 months ago

        I wonder if that’s why Microsoft’s recent products are, you know, the way they are.

      • Kairos@lemmy.todayEnglish
        12·
        9 months ago

        To be fair Microsoft sells flushed out products and their only innovation is worthless, so they don’t really need talkent.

        • bamboo@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          Consumer side perhaps there is little desired innovation from MS, but most of their sales are enterprise and cloud, the last of which is a rapidly evolving market where talent can be put to good use.

    • lobut@lemmy.caEnglish
      15·
      9 months ago

      So like, to impress their shareholders that they’re cutting the fat? Aren’t they going to lose time retraining?

      Or do you mean by hiring a new class, like they’re getting rid of workers for cheaper one?

      • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
        5·
        9 months ago

        It is a combination of the following: they would rather take a chance on a new employee than a poorly trained existing employee; they need to keep the ability to train people by constantly needing to train people; it keeps the existing workers on their toes.

  • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    151·
    9 months ago

    Former MS employee here. One of the first layoffs I’m aware of was within a year after I quit the company. I heard they were streamlining the organization and clearing out “deadwood”. One of my managers there had been a complete drone - in six months he had given me close to ZERO work to do - maybe 3 weeks worth, max. I figured he finally would have been let go, but nope… he was still there, no doubt practicing his excellence as before. What a zoo.