Microsoft Layoffs Are Still Too Frequent to Keep Abreast of and Properly (or Exhaustively) Classify
The "HR" department knows what's happening, but whistleblowers from there are rare
MANY people predicted that this month, due to a new financial year and results towards the month's end, there would be many waves and/or reports of Microsoft layoffs. We didn't expect that to happen during Independence Day weekend, but it did happen. This month they even hit a whole "DEI" team - a move which some people would deem insensitive.
As a result of the high frequency of these layoffs we now poll for information several times per day, not merely once per day, but it'll be close to impossible to piece together pertinent numbers. In the corporate media, which plays it "safe" by parroting Microsoft instead of independently checking, thousands laid off become just "hundreds".
Sites that actually verify (and check with people one can trust) are not only vilified but also assaulted. This is the hallmark of cult tactics, which helps affirm the belief that Microsoft operates a lot like a cult. Well, the cult is shrinking; maybe it fights for its very survival. █