This Month is the 11th Month of This Year With Mass Layoffs at Microsoft (So Far It's Happening Every Month This Year, More Announced Hours Ago)
Three weeks ago: You Know That Microsoft's LinkedIn is Struggling When It Starts Spamming Users and Disguises the Spam as Personal Messages
A few hours ago, citing The Information (typically paywalled), investing.com said "Microsoft’s LinkedIn lays off 200 employees" - hardly surprising as this company (just like GitHub) has been circling down the loo for a number of years, with the occasional office shutdowns (permanent), mass layoffs, and secret "financial performance" figures (Microsoft mostly hides these by merging with other reporting units and shuffling those around to make it impossible to compare apples/oranges with apples/oranges).
GitHub and LinkedIn are worthless junk because both are just social control networks disguised as code-hosting and job-seeking (in practice they're a waste of time, distraction from getting stuff done, albeit potentially addictive by design - they give a false sense of self-improvement).
So now it's LinkedIn's turn to shrink some more, not just by waiting for people to leave/retire to quietly/silently reduce "headcount". Apparently workers did not leave "fast enough"... so Microsoft gives hundreds of them the boot.
There's not a lot of text, but enough to confirm this has happened. To quote: "LinkendIn [sic] laid off about 200 employees over the past two weeks, The Information reported on Thursday, with the cuts happening within the engineering and customer support departments. The social [control] network for professionals, which is owned by Microsoft, cut about 1% of its workforce in its latest round of layoffs, The Information reported, citing a LinkedIn spokesperson."
Now they even admit it, however reluctantly. But they duck until some of those affected (whistleblowers) talk to the media. As we saw before, even in GitHub, they compel those impacted by layoffs to sign NDAs to hide the layoffs. Depending on how one looks at it, they either penalise the victims for truth or bribe them to keep a lie. That's a moral problem is not a legal problem too. █