Two Weeks Passed Since Latest Large Wave of Microsoft Layoffs, More Expected Next Month
August starts just over 2 weeks from now. After Microsoft laid off about 29,000 workers (by our estimate, a running tally) in 6 months of 2025 it's expected there's more to come in August.
Some remaining staff is correct to assume [1,2] it didn't dodge the bullet. There's a lot more on the way.
Recall also: The Numbers Game: 50,000-60,000 Microsoft Workers Laid Off in 2.5 Years? And Debt Still Tripled Under Nadella.
The way things are going, Microsoft's debt is so huge that it is lying about "investment" in "AI" (while firing "AI" workers) and eventually there will be nothing left of this company. Blaming the debt on "AI" is just self-serving storytelling. Tell the same lie a million times; maybe it'll stick in people's mind, owing in part to docile media and slopfarms.
This week we learned from a young colleague that he was using GNU/Linux (he's not working in tech). It turns out many young people already grow up without Windows at all. Many shops around here run GNU/Linux (e.g. OpenSUSE) at the back end. █
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"A future has been stolen": ZeniMax union says "lives were upended" by Xbox layoffs and MMO cancelation, but "we have not yet been laid off"
ZeniMax Online Studios United (ZOSU-CWA), a union formed by members of the Elder Scrolls Online development team and people who had been working on a now-canceled MMO in December, has issued a statement in response to the recent layoffs at Xbox.
For the uninitiated, an unannounced Destiny-style MMO codenamed Blackbird, which was in development at Elder Scrolls Online studio ZeniMax Online for seven years, was canceled as part of Microsoft's restructuring, and in the wake of the news longtime studio director Matt Firor resigned.
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„Layoffs may be inevitable” ZeniMax Online Studios workers union shares statement about canceled MMORPG
Today, in a statement shared with IGN, the workers union at ZeniMax Online Studios broke their silence about the recent layoffs at Microsoft which effected over 9,000 individuals, including many at Xbox. The 461 employees at ZeniMax Online Studios voted to form a union in December, which is called ZeniMax Online Studios United, or ZOSU. This organization is also part of the Communication Workers of America. The elected workers are currently negotiating a contract with Microsoft, though an agreement has yet to be reached. According the organization, the studio has yet to be affected by layoffs, but that could change.