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Video: Many Microsoft Layoffs in 2020, Including Azure Layoffs

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Summary: In terms of layoffs [1], Microsoft has had a particularly tough year [2-14], but it has been distracting the public and misusing media connections (or its moles inside the media) to downplay things, to spin the layoffs as a positive thing, and sometimes shamelessly lie

THE Microsoft layoffs which were announced during summer (slow news, mostly between June and August) were spun as a good thing and sometimes covered up until sacked employees blew the whistle and used privacy-preserving software to communicate with journalists. Throughout 2020 we wrote a number of articles and memes about it. This is a roundup of them (as video).



Related/contextual items from the news:

  1. Microsoft - Layoffs (wiki)
  2. Latest Microsoft Layoffs Spun as 'Innovation' (There's Always a Positive PR Angle)
  3. Don't Fall for the Spin, Microsoft is Laying Off Workers and It's Not Just Because of the Pandemic
  4. Microsoft Layoffs, Second Time in Less Than a Month (and People Lose Their 'Mixer')
  5. Microsoft Has Nothing Left in Store
  6. Microsoft is Lying About Everything, Even the Layoffs
  7. More Microsoft Layoffs (Fourth Round of Layoffs in 1.5 Months)
  8. Microsoft “Declined to Elaborate on the Roles Which Had Been Eliminated” Means Microsoft Left Leeway for Spin and Lies (But We Know Azure Has More Layoffs)
  9. Microsoft Lays Off Azure Staff and Much More, Spins These Layoffs as “Optimization Strategy”
  10. Fifth Round of Microsoft Layoffs in Less Than 2 Months: Another Thousand Job Cuts (6% of LinkedIn Workforce)
  11. Microsoft is Defrauding Its Shareholders While Laying Off About 5,000 Workers
  12. Microsoft Lays Off Many More Workers in the Advertising Division/s and Terminates Products While the Press is Distracted by TikTok Rumours
  13. [Meme] Is It Not a Layoffs Round When You Rebrand It?
  14. Microsoft Sheds Off Lots of Staff in This Autumn of COVID


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