Another Round of Microsoft Mass Layoffs About to Begin (Maybe Fifth of the Year, Unrelated to the 10,000 Sum Which is False, Very Outdated, and Misleading)
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2023-07-24 06:03:38 UTC
- Modified: 2023-07-24 06:09:32 UTC
In Australia
almost 10% of Microsoft's workforce has been laid off this year alone (we're only in July):
Summary: It's already well into Monday (past midday) in Australia, a week in which Microsoft wants to explain to shareholders how it will cut costs, and based on the tenses used in the articles above (just minutes old [1, 2]) these layoffs are about to happen; they're not related to the 1,000+ laid off without prior notice a fortnight ago in the US, Canada, and Europe
From a Microsoft boosting site a few days ago:
Being clandestine about mass layoffs is a very bad sign. Even Microsoft 'fan' sites are baffled by this.