After at Least Two Rounds of Mass Layoffs in August Microsoft Said to Have "September Layoff Confirmed - Performance Based"
Days ago: (At Least) Second Wave of Mass Layoffs in Microsoft This Month | Mass Layoffs Continue at Microsoft This Month (Remaining Workers See Conditions That Deteriorate)
As expected and as some people predicted earlier this summer, there's this new rumour: "Rewards are over and Microsoft will now (again) move into performance based layoffs where they will be cutting under performers flagged from this and past reviews. M5 level meetings are happening and have been scheduled. If you scored a 80 or below you are at risk this round. And keep in sight that managers were trained that 80 is considered performing as you are asked, nothing more. It’s clear they are on a mission to retain high performers only , the piece they are missing is that most high performers are not high performers…just good at the social game."
Those "M5 level meetings" sound plausible and previously when we saw such rumours they became substantiated (some time later). It seems like someone from the inside, who is well informed, has chosen to inform (or forewarn) others.
This would be the eleventh of twelfth round of layoffs at Microsoft this year (based on our tally). Microsoft got rid of about 30,000 so far this year, not counting those it pushed to resign. █