Microsoft is Already Laying Off Lots of Contractors
Temps*, contractors and permatemps (no obligations) are how Microsoft hides the real impact of deep workforce cuts. This is the latest:
Microsoft is about to start the seventh (at least!) wave of mass layoffs in 2025. It already culled well over 5,000 people, not counting temps or people it pushed to leave (so that they won't count as layoffs). As shown above, cost-cutting at Microsoft takes a new "edge".
Revisit what we wrote yesterday: Coming Soon: Microsoft Fake Results, Mass Layoffs, and Silence About All the People Microsoft Pressured to "Quit" (So That They Don't Get Counted as Layoffs) █
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* 9 hours ago somebody wrote: "In Seattle the majority of tech workers are foreign born with most on "temp" h1b visas They flood the market (and the local suburban schools with their kid)s so it will be interesting how this plays out"