Microsoft: Mass Layoffs Are "Offers" (Like "Job Offers"), Culling Experienced and Highly-Paid Staff is "Softer Workforce-reduction Strategy"
They are sugarcoating mass layoffs, the media plays along:
16 hours ago in Microsoft-connected media, puff piece by Joseph Chisom Ofonagoro
Regimes try to get re-elected (or elected so as to seize power). They rely on self-serving propaganda, or "PR" for short.
The state or state-owned media typically plays a role in such "PR", citing "the government" (political party, accountable to nobody).
When the economy gets weak they begin obsessing over public sentiments (towards the economy), not measurable metrics like mean salaries, promotions, real money in circulation (as opposed to debt, i.e. hypothetical money) and so on.
When layoffs are becoming the "new norm" for a handful of companies that borrow 200 billion dollars in less than a year (about 30 billion dollars in loans per month, for just 5 "tech" companies) they begin using tender words like "Freeze" or "Buyout" (almost indistinguishable from severance).
Hours ago we said a faux-open source company, GitLab, was adopting the lies (upon layoffs) that 1) it's owing to slop and 2) it is voluntary.
Media sites that play along with those lies don't do journalism, they're in the PR industry.
When IBM used the term "RA" (as catchy or "PR" or "HR") at least it didn't call it "buyout" or some positive-sounding word. It just said "action", without specifying the kind of action (sacking, firing, canning). █