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Microsoft - Layoffs



2008

November 2008

  • Quick Mention: Layoffs at Microsoft Begin
  • Microsoft Layoffs Actually Began Years Ago, More Likely to Come
  • Quick Mention: More Layoffs at Microsoft


    • December 2008

  • Microsoft Layoffs Worse Than Initially Reported
  • Rumours: More Microsoft Layoffs Next Month
  • Brokerage Firm Asks Microsoft to Fire Over 9,000 Employees
  • Fudzilla: Microsoft to Fire 15,000 Employees in Two Weeks


    • 2009

    January 2009

  • Noted: Indian Express and The Times About 15,000 Microsoft Jobs at Risk (Updated)
  • Microsoft Already Drops Clues About Layoffs
  • Wall Street Journal on Microsoft Layoffs
  • Microsoft Cuts Contractors Spendings by Almost 15%
  • Preliminary Look at Microsoft’s Layoffs and Hogwash
  • Senator Criticises Microsoft for Betraying Americans (Update)
  • Wrap-Up of Microsoft’s Demise; Units Shut Down
  • Cringely Says Microsoft Should Fire 50,000 Employees; More Dead Teams Surface
  • Microsoft Collapse Leads to Federal Confrontation


    • February 2009

  • Quick Mention: More Microsoft Layoffs — Already
  • More Microsoft Products Shut Down, Possibly Related to Quiet Layoffs
  • Doomsday Part I: Microsoft’s Razorfish Apparently Dumps Microsoft Technology Amid Rumoured Sale of This Massive Microsoft Asset
  • Microsoft Cuts by Another 10%… of Wages


    • March 2009

  • Cutbacks at Microsoft, More Canceled Products Rumoured (Corrected)
  • Eye on Microsoft: Failures Galore This Week


    • April 2009

  • Is Microsoft About to Announce More Layoffs?
  • Eye on Microsoft: More Layoffs, Also in Microsoft Ally Infosys; Vista 7 Rejected Before Arrival
  • Good News, Good Site News, and More Microsoft Layoffs Rumoured
  • Microsoft Does Not Deny Rumours of Further Layoffs


    • May 2009

  • Microsoft Cuts 5,000 Staff, More Likely to Come
  • MSN Direct, MSDN Magazine and Other Unnamed Microsoft Divisions Hit by Layoffs
  • A Look at Microsoft’s Uneven Layoff Patterns Around the Globe, More Likely Coming
  • Another Microsoft Product Officially Dies, More Layoffs, Tellme Founder Quits Microsoft
  • Head of Microsoft Philippines Ditches the Company, More Layoffs Revealed (But Microsoft Withholds Details)


    • June-September 2009

  • Microsoft Prepares a Bogus Study to Defend Abandonment of American Workforce
  • Fill the (Microsoft) Blank: “I Don’t See Any Potential for Us to _________ This Year.”
  • Microsoft Workforce to Shrink by Another 2,000 or More
  • Microsoft Lays Off More Employees Across the US, But Hires Near SCO
  • Over 2,000 Microsoft Employees Lose 75% of Stock Options Value


    • October 2009

  • Microsoft Works Dies, More Layoffs Reported
  • Microsoft Continues Downward Slide
  • Microsoft Employee Wants the Company to Fire 20,000 More Staff
  • Microsoft Layoffs Rumoured (November 4th) After Bad Results


    • November 2009

  • Quick Mention: Boycott Novell Was Right About Microsoft Layoffs


    • December 2009

  • Microsoft Gets Rid of Many More Employees


    • 2010

  • Rumours of Additional (Stealth) Microsoft Layoffs
  • Former Microsoft Executive: Microsoft Should Lay Off 30%-40% of Its Workforce
  • Quick Mention: More Microsoft Layoffs
  • News Reports About Microsoft’s Confirmation of Layoffs
  • FBR Capital Markets and Morgan Stanley Both Cut Microsoft Estimates While Microsoft is Hiding the Losses and Layoffs Are Rumoured for Next Month
  • “Hearing Lots of Rumors of More {Microsoft} Layoffs Next Week or the Week After.”
  • Microsoft’s Debt is Growing and More Layoffs Likely Imminent Based on Steve Ballmer’s Remarks


    • 2011

  • Microsoft Forced to Reveal More Layoffs, Offshoring; Sues Escapees


    • 2012

  • Microsoft to Start 2012 With More Layoffs


    • 2013

  • Microsoft is Unloading Divisions, Many Employees Leave
  • Microsoft is Hiring Moles Inside Free/Open Source Software (the Competition) While Sacking Its Own Staff (Microsoft Layoffs Silently Occurring Every Quarter)


    • 2014

  • Microsoft Layoffs of 2014
  • Microsoft’s Latest Round of Massive/Bulk/Large-scale Layoffs
  • Microsoft’s Massive Layoffs Go Far Beyond Nokia; Nokia’s Android Phones Axed by Microsoft’s Elop


    • 2015

  • Sadistic Microsoft Layoffs: Christians Fired on Easter Shortly After Microsoft Fired Many Chinese on Chinese New Year
  • The Future of Computing is Mobility and Microsoft Cannot Do Anything But Patent Extortion Against Android/Linux, So More Massive Layoffs Are Announced by Microsoft
  • Corporate Media Frames Microsoft Layoffs as ‘Nokia Layoffs’, Despite Contradictory Facts
  • Shamelessly Rewriting the History of Nokia to Embellish Massive Microsoft Layoffs
  • Vista 10 is 'Swiss Cheese' With Critical Bugs, More Microsoft Layoffs (HoloLens) Announced. So Why Did OpenBSD Accept Microsoft's $1,000,000 Bribe?


    • 2016

  • More Microsoft Layoffs as the Company Tries to Turn GNU/Linux Into Its Own Proprietary Platform
  • Microsoft’s Patent Blackmail Against Linux Not Enough to Keep Microsoft Afloat, Many More Layoffs Coming


    • 2020

  • Latest Microsoft Layoffs Spun as 'Innovation' (There's Always a Positive PR Angle)
  • Don't Fall for the Spin, Microsoft is Laying Off Workers and It's Not Just Because of the Pandemic
  • Microsoft Layoffs, Second Time in Less Than a Month (and People Lose Their 'Mixer')
  • Microsoft Has Nothing Left in Store (all stores shut down)
  • Microsoft is Lying About Everything, Even the Layoffs
  • More Microsoft Layoffs (Fourth Round of Layoffs in 1.5 Months)
  • Microsoft “Declined to Elaborate on the Roles Which Had Been Eliminated” Means Microsoft Left Leeway for Spin and Lies (But We Know Azure Has More Layoffs)
  • Microsoft Lays Off Azure Staff and Much More, Spins These Layoffs as “Optimization Strategy”
  • Fifth Round of Microsoft Layoffs in Less Than 2 Months: Another Thousand Job Cuts (6% of LinkedIn Workforce)
  • Microsoft is Defrauding Its Shareholders While Laying Off About 5,000 Workers
  • Microsoft Lays Off Many More Workers in the Advertising Division/s and Terminates Products While the Press is Distracted by TikTok Rumours
  • Meme: Is It Not a Layoffs Round When You Rebrand It?
  • Microsoft Sheds Off Lots of Staff in This Autumn of COVID


    • 2021

  • Video: Many Microsoft Layoffs in 2020, Including Azure Layoffs


    • 2022

  • More Microsoft Layoffs for Second Month in a Row (Those That Microsoft Even Openly Admits, Cannot Hide Anymore)
  • Number of Microsoft Layoffs Vastly Higher Than Microsoft Publicly Signals (the Perma-Temp and Contractor Loopholes)
  • In Addition to Microsoft Laying Off Many Workers, Entire 'Business' Units Get Shut Down Permanently
  • Microsoft Death Spiral: Microsoft Fires 200 Employees “Working to Win Back Customers”
  • Microsoft Firing 10%, Not 1%, of Staff (Microsoft Lies to the Media, Figures One Order of Magnitude Off)
  • Microsoft Layoffs Are Huge and Engaging With Microsoft Lowers Your Employment Prospects
  • Microsoft: Azure is Our Future. Also Microsoft: TWO Rounds of Layoffs in Azure So Far This Year (Stock Crashes Again).
  • Microsoft is Laying Off Contractors, Not Only Full-Time Staff (the Ones Counted or Mentioned by Microsoft)
  • Rumour: More Microsoft Layoffs (Big Layoffs) Next Month
  • Rumour: Very Large Microsoft Layoffs (Another Round) Next Month, Lists Already Being Prepared
  • Microsoft Layoffs Again
  • With 2022 Azure Layoffs and Many Other Microsoft Units Failing (Losing Money) Expect Microsoft to Pursue Buyouts to Fake 'Growth' and Keep Gullible Shareholders' Money
  • Microsoft is Crumbling and Large-Scale Layoffs Seem Imminent, Not Just Likely (Acquisitions Help Microsoft Fake Growth That Does Not Exist)


    • 2023

    January 2023

  • Still Rumours of Microsoft Layoffs This Month
  • Microsoft: Four Rounds of Mass Layoffs in 12 Months? Some Rumours Say Five.
  • Far More Microsoft Layoffs and Spending Cuts Than the Mainstream/Corporate/Tech Media Reports on
  • Latest Rumour: Microsoft Layoffs Next Tuesday (January 17th, 2023)
  • New Word/Term for Microsoft Layoffs: Unlimited Time Off
  • Microsoft Rumour Mill About January (and July) Waves of Layoffs
  • Microsoft: We'll Need Less Space for Staff in 2023
  • Sunday (Holiday Weekend) News Drop: Microsoft is Dropping Its Offices in Its Homebase (Seattle)
  • Rumour: Microsoft Managers Trained 4 Days Ago on How to Tell About 5,000 Microsoft Employees That They're Sacked
  • Rumour: 6,000 More Employees Impacted by Microsoft Layoffs; Managers Informed Today, Staff Informed Tomorrow (Updated)
  • Techrights Was Right: 11,000 Workers to Be Culled in Microsoft Layoffs, According to Press Reports
  • Behind the Microsoft Layoffs There's an Even Darker Reality
  • Microsoft Azure is So Amazingly Successful That Every Year Since 2020 It Has Layoffs (Even This Year)
  • Media Policy: Repeat What Microsoft Spokespeople Are Saying, Don't Investigate Simple Facts
  • Latest Rumour: Much Larger Wave of Microsoft Layoffs Already Planned for Later This Year
  • Azure Has Layoffs Again, Microsoft Still Cutting


    • February 2023

  • The Rumours Were True. Microsoft Lays Off GitHub Staff.
  • GitHub Hasn’t a Bright Future and, by Extension, Projects Hosted by Microsoft/GitHub May Have Big Trouble Ahead
  • Microsoft in 2023: Rounds of Layoffs Every Month (Yes, Another One Just Before the Weekend!)
  • Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part XXVIII — GitHub to Shut Down All Offices, Including Its Headquarters
  • Microsoft Shuts Down GitHub (All Offices)
  • Yet More Azure and LinkedIn Layoffs at Microsoft (While the Media is Busy Cashing in on Microsoft Puff Pieces, Mindless Marketing That Distracts From These Layoffs)


    • March 2023

    Lots and lots of "ChatGPT" spam in the media, acting as a smokescreen while Microsoft culls a lot more people than it admits to the media.

  • Microsoft Has Had THREE Waves of Layoffs in Less Than Three Months (Yes, It's Happening Again) While Media Obsesses Over 'HEY HI' Vapourware
  • Rumours of More Microsoft Layoffs Tomorrow (Including Managers!), Probably Azure Again (Many Azure Layoffs Every Year Since 2020)
  • Microsoft is Sacking People Every Month This Year, Even Managers (While Sponsored Media Produces Endless Chatbot Chaff)
  • Many More Microsoft Layoffs Later Today
  • The Corporate Media is Not Reporting Large-Scale Microsoft Layoffs (Too Busy With Chaffbot Puff Pieces), Leaks Required to Prove That More Layoffs Are Happening
  • All of Microsoft's Strategic Areas Have Layoffs This Year
  • The Rumours Were Right: Many More Microsoft Layoffs This Week, Another Round of GitHub Layoffs
  • In One City Alone Microsoft Fired Almost 3,000 Workers This Year (We're Still in March)


    • April 2023

  • Microsoft Layoffs in the Buzzwords Department
  • Microsoft Lays Off African Staff as Windows Market Share in Africa Falls to 15%
  • Microsoft (Mis)Uses NDAs to Hide the Full Breadth of Its Massive Layoffs, Which Are Ongoing Every Week
  • Microsoft Layoffs Now in Bay Area (California)
  • Lots of Microsoft Shutdowns Reported Today (Whole Offices, Divisions and Products Axed Entirely)
  • Another Round of Layoffs at Microsoft
  • Microsoft's Quarterly 'Results' for This Week Expected to Disappoint, More Layoffs This Week or in Summer (July)
  • Press Report This Morning: Microsoft Azure Layoffs Again, Entire Team Laid Off
  • The Microsoft Spin Machine Resumes Amid Layoffs, Azure's Decline, and Worse News
  • All That Microsoft Has Left Now is Distraction and Destruction (Layoffs and Deflection Aplenty)
  • Microsoft, Based in Redmond, is 'Exiting' Redmond Amid Layoffs and Other Troubles
  • Microsoft Leaving Atlanta
  • No More Microsoft-Branded Peripherals After the Massive Layoffs


    • May 2023

  • Microsoft's Mass Layoffs Are Killing Many Microsoft Peripherals and Flagship Products
  • What We've Heard Since December: The Biggest Microsoft Layoffs Will be Starting This Summer
  • Over 100 New Layoffs in Microsoft Portugal
  • More Microsoft Layoffs (Nothing to Do With January), Making Perhaps the Fourth Wave of Layoffs This Year
  • Lots of Microsoft Layoffs This Week (Not Just Portugal and LinkedIn), Layoffs Expected to Continue for Months to Come
  • Microsoft’s Latest Redmond Layoffs Exposed in WARN Act Disclosures (About 3,000 Already Laid Off in Seattle Alone)
  • Corporate Media Finally Realises It's Wrong to Parrot Microsoft's Claim of Just One Round of Layoffs
  • Immense Abuse, Sabotage and Vandalism in IRC Each Time We Mention Microsoft Crises
  • Microsoft Layoffs Continue: Workers Given Notice on Friday of Long (Holiday) Weekend, This Time Nuance
  • When It Comes to Financial Spin-Doctoring, Microsoft is Now Marketers Marketers Marketers Marketers
  • Microsoft Layoffs Still Ongoing This Week in Nuance Communications


    • June 2023

  • After Microsoft GitHub Sells (Shuts Down) Key Offices LinkedIn Does the Same
  • Microsoft is Batching the Next Round of Mass Layoffs to be Announced in a Few Weeks (While Media Makes Plenty of Noise to Distract/Divert for Microsoft)


    • July 2023

  • Gurdeep Pall Knows What's Coming (to Microsoft)
  • New Rumour: Microsoft's Next Big Round of Layoffs Starts Next Week
  • The Mass Layoffs Are Smart and Intelligent, Says Microsoft
  • Meme: Microsoft Executives Likely Departing in Connection With Impending Layoffs
  • Microsoft Presidents Keep Resigning Just Days Ahead of Rumoured Mass Layoffs (Another Huge Wave, Maybe End of Month, Maybe Next Week)
  • Microsoft Rumour Mill: Expecting the “Expensive” Staff to Be Removed, Maybe
  • Microsoft July 2023 Layoffs: What We Know So Far
  • Meme: Warming Up With Excuses for Mass Layoffs at Microsoft?
  • Microsoft 'Research' (PR and Marketing) Already Preparing Us for Layoffs Excuse?
  • Surge in Microsoft Traffic Suggests There's Hearsay -- Maybe Panic -- About the July 2023 Layoffs
  • New Report: Many Microsoft Employees Are Nowadays Fake Workers, Contractors Instead of Real Staff (Not Even Counted as Layoffs After Their Disposal)
  • According to the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Web Site of Washington State, in January 2023 Only 878 Workers Were Declared Redundant, Now It's About 3,000 Already (in This One State Alone)
  • CONFIRMED: Microsoft Mass Layoffs Starting Today (July 2023 Layoffs Confirmed by the Company)
  • Latest Microsoft Layoffs International and Broad, Many Thousands Affected (Not Even Counting Contractors and Temps)
  • WHERE ARE THE JOURNALISTS?
  • Meme: Getting a Promotion at Microsoft
  • Microsoft's July 2023 Layoffs Have Spread to Europe
  • Meme: Microsoft Party Parrots
  • Microsoft Lipstick on the July 2023 Round of Layoffs
  • Microsoft's Mass Layoffs This Week Are Impacting People in Many US States, in Canada, and in Europe (Not That the Media Talks About It)
  • Press Coverage About Microsoft's New Wave of Layoffs Improving Somewhat (Plus, Microsoft Layoffs in California Now Confirmed)
  • Turbulent Week at Microsoft, Starting Monday, and There’s Lots More to Come This Summer
  • Latest Wave of Microsoft Layoffs Has Come to Canada (But Nobody in the Canadian Media Has Even Mentioned It!)
  • Microsoft's XBox is Imploding, Many Top Roles Vacated Amid Layoff Waves (Lots of XBox Staff Laid Off This Year)
  • Microsoft Layoffs Still Ongoing, This Wave Did Not End
  • Techrights Was Right: Microsoft Fired More Than 4 Times What the Media Said Last Week
  • Microsoft Whistleblowers Needed for the Public to Know the Full Extent of This Year's Layoffs, Plus 'Temps'/'Permatemps' and Contractors (Probably Tens of Thousands Made Redundant)
  • Misinformation: The Media is Already Turning Over 1,000 Additional Microsoft Layoffs Into Just 1,000
  • Microsoft Employees Feel Like the CEO’s Purpose is to Replace Them With Cheaper Workers on a Work Visa (Blind Obedience Assured, No Unions)
  • 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)
  • Debunking the Myth of Microsoft Layoffs Being Limited to Those Announced in January: The Case of California
  • 'Open' at Microsoft (Not Really): Microsoft Refuses to Tell the Mainstream Media in Australia How Many People Are Laid Off (Possibly Over 10% of All Staff Already Laid Off This Year Alone)
  • Australian Mainstream Media Condemns Microsoft for Firing a Lot of Workers (About 10% of Staff in Australia) While Giving Billions to the CEO
  • Mass Layoffs at Microsoft's PR Department (Waggener Edstrom) and Agencies That Bribe Bloggers and Journalists on Microsoft's Behalf (to Act as a Proxy, Distance the Liability)
  • Microsoft Layoffs Figures Omit Cuts in Its Communications, Bribery, Lies and Spin Department (Waggener Edstrom)
  • Wall Street Journal 15 Minutes Ago: Microsoft Revenue Does Not Look Good (Amid More Mass Layoffs)
  • Layoffs Aside, Microsoft Will Have a Worker Retention Crisis (or 'Voluntary' Resignations It Won't Even Count as Layoffs)
  • More Mass Layoffs at Microsoft Coinciding With Bad Results (and Microsoft's Shares Falling)
  • Microsoft's Mass Layoffs May Accelerate Even Further Following This Week's Bad Results (Disregard the Shameless Misreporting in Corporate Media, Controlled by Microsoft Operatives)
  • Leaked (Internal) Microsoft Poll: Most Microsoft Employees Want to Leave the Company If They Can Find a Job Elsewhere
  • Most Microsoft Employees No Longer Want to Work for Microsoft, According to Internal Poll
  • One More Round of Layoffs for July: Sales Arm of Microsoft Lays Off Almost 1,000 More Workers


    • August 2023

  • In the State of Washington Microsoft is Doing a 'Staff Bloodbath'


    • September 2023

  • Azure Stagnating, Partners Have Layoffs
  • The Collapse of ChatGPT (and Microsoft’s Bing), Plus More Layoffs
  • Microsoft's Many Waves of Mass Layoffs Have Caused Major Downtimes, Very Slow Recovery
  • Microsoft Layoffs Already Causing Massive and Very Long Downtimes (Over a Day Long!), ChatGPT Usage Has Fallen for at Least 3 Months in a Row, Microsoft Share in Devices Fell From 1.13% to Just 0.75% in 3 Months (Surface Duo Officially Dead Too)


    • Also see: Microsoft - Offshoring and Visas