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New Report: Many Microsoft Employees Are Nowadays Fake Workers, Contractors Instead of Real Staff (Not Even Counted as Layoffs After Their Disposal)

Published one hour ago:

The reality of Big Tech's 'fake work' problem

Yes, Microsoft a notable example:

One former contract worker hired by Meta during the pandemic became so frustrated with feeling idle that she took on a second contract job at Microsoft at the same time (neither company knew she was working for the other). She decided if 'they're not going to give me anything to do then I guess I'm just getting paid.'

Representatives from Salesforce, and Microsoft declined to comment. Meta did not respond to requests for comment.

Summary: We've long said that the real number of Microsoft layoffs is far higher than what Microsoft and the media (parroting Microsoft's lies) say and on top of that they don't even count the temps (temporary workers) and the contractors (what the above articles calls "fake work"); Microsoft suffers a serious crisis which dismantles entire teams and products/disservices (GitHub had at least two waves of layoffs this year, to give one example)

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