A shrinking company, desperately looking for unauthentic/inauthentic growth (as shareholders might fret)

Summary: There are many further rounds of layoffs at Microsoft or its flailing^* subsidiaries this year and even whole offices get shut down (including a campus in Redmond, Microsoft's heart and centre); today we learned about LinkedIn not only having many further rounds of layoffs (it had gone on for 3 years already); entire offices are shut down (same thing that happened in GitHub, where several rounds of layoffs happened so far this year [1, 2]); "It's not a new thing," an associate remarks, but the Microsoft-sponsored media barely bothers covering this (too busy and infatuated with buzzwords/chatbots/hype campaigns for distraction, some allege a valuation pump and dump), which means one comes to rely on estate sites to mention such suppressed facts which matter a lot

_______ ^* LinkedIn, which Microsoft grossly overpaid for, stumbles as not many places hire and, as for GitHub, people find better options and useful alternatives to Microsoft's proprietary GitHub, which Microsoft abuses to censor Free software. Among those alternatives:

• GitLab
• Codeberg
• Gitea
• GNU Savannah
• GitBucket
• Gogs (self-hosting)
• Sourcehut