Rumours About February 2026 Microsoft Layoffs: Silent Layoffs or 30,000 Culled Tomorrow
A month ago: No, Microsoft Did Not Deny the Q1 Mass Layoffs (Microsoft Can Delay These)
Even before Microsoft's shares collapsed there were potent rumours - and contrary to parrots in the media Microsoft never denied this! - about Microsoft mass layoffs and PIPs. These rumours seemed legitimate for several reasons; the claims seemed plausible and overlapped in terms of their details. Microsoft then (we assume) delayed the implementation, in effect building a bigger "Snowball".
This recent claim talks about tomorrow, but there's little 'meat' to it:
Here are claims about "rolling" or "silent" layoffs (IBM's favourite):
Sooner or later (and soon) Microsoft will need to say something and file some WARN notifications. █