Microsoft Laid Off About 20,000 Workers in 2023, Not 10,000 Like the Media Likes to Say (Also Not Counting Temps and Contractors)
Temps and contractors (HR loopholes; also permatemps in limbo) would likely mean ~30,000 were let go last year.
Microsoft-sponsored stenography: (face-saving spin because thousands are being laid off again)
This fails to mention that in 2023 those numbers included another company's staff, about 13,000 more workers:
They similarly faked gaming "revenues", basically adding up the revenues of another company (or companies) to hide what an untenable catastrophe XBox had become.