There Have Been Many Waves of Layoffs at Microsoft's LinkedIn (the State of the Job Market Cannot Help), Site Traffic Steadily Going Down
LinkedIn is just another example of the social control media passing fad (compare to Twitter)
We've only just noticed that for several months in a row LinkedIn 'traffic' is down, i.e. same as GitHub, which also had many rounds of layoffs and office shutdowns (both Microsoft companies have had office shutdowns).
Microsoft is just cooking the books right now. Computer sales (with Windows) aren't doing well, XBox is collapsing, so what's left? Buzzwords like Clown Computing and LLMs that fail to deliver on their false promises (vapourware)? Even the mainstream media very recently indicated that Microsoft it walking away (to some extent) from 'Open'AI, seeing it's just billions in losses. Investors have no more patience for this 2-year nonsense. They ask "tough" questions about any RoI or future prospects from a business perspective. Microsoft sank deep into debt - an increase of 30+ billion dollars in debt since the 'Open'AI partnership (Microsoft paying 'Open'AI to become a Microsoft client, i.e. Microsoft paying itself to fake business activity).
Microsoft tried to 'monetise' or fake "engagement" in LinkedIn by turning people's "content" into LLM stuff, but that sort of backfired (massive backlash, truly angry users) and Microsoft said it had withdrawn that plan. This showed a failure both for LinkedIn and for LLMs. █