See here: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/07/media/microsoft-outlook-outage/index.html

"And now, SEC filings show Microsoft is planning to lay off 10,000 employees by the end of the third... —  read more 

The layoffs took place earlier this week and impacted employees across departments, including tech, sales and product FarEye CEO Kushal Nahata cited macroeconomic headwinds for the layoffs and said the reduction in staff was necessary to align... —  read more 

“Controlling labor costs via periodic layoffs is like breathing for Silicon Valley: cyclical, necessary for life,” Malcolm Harris, author of the forthcoming book “Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism and the World,” told me. The layoffs... —  read more 

Sue Satya! https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2023-01-30/column-how-big-tech-is-using-mass-layoffs-to-bring-workers-to-heel

There was a senior source at the company that said this was happening. Can someone confirm?

https://www.yahoo.com/now/tech-layoffs-strip-facade-tiktoks-194529787.html

Yes, I am a tech person, a Microsoftie but……. The tech community as a whole are so wholeheartedly, with exuberance working just as hard as they can to contribute as much as they can to AI. External tech people from admins, to coders, programmers... —  read more 

The plan is to use AI to start small by replacing a potion of support (Server, Azure etc..). Once bugs and workflow are vetted after a year or so, let it take over more and more work in support, which of course means letting people go.

Combined, Amazon and Microsoft are laying off a total of 28,000 employees The wave of tech layoffs is continuing into 2023 An uncertain economic climate is one reason behind the string of... —  read more 

Microsoft laid off 10,000 workers while investing $10 billion into OpenAI. Is AI going to replace tech workers?

Now stop laying off you greedy ba----ds!

Working to make millions more humans obsolete? https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64374283

To them, you are an asset. It comes down to money, simple as that. You are an asset, something to be traded, used or discarded at will. Somebody runs an excel formula and your number comes up to be let go. It’s only a job. You are a commodity for... —  read more 

Azure is being hit, which is rather surprising. Not sure about other orgs.

I am not a MS employee but hotmail has been miserable for too long now. Unfortunately, due to historical usage I am unable to 100% get out of it, though most critical email subscriptions have been moved over to gmail. Please can someone actually get... —  read more 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/microsoft-announces-new-multibillion-dollar-investment-in-chatgpt-maker-openai/ar-AA16EbCH

Multiple folks sitting in Canada and working on H1-B and TN visa (which is illegal) and paid in US but US citizens being laid off. It’s such a shame.

How’d you learn you were laid off?

Did Microsoft layoff employees in LATAM? If yes. what country or division?

I was trying to check something and I'm not able to do it, is showing a message as Invalid Login, I take that as probably I was laid off.

Yet the H1B hiring continues in full steam. Such a shame with all the US citizens hurting.

Noticing colleagues who were never available suddenly become more engaged. Hoping the “I’ll admit I WFH for only 2 hours day” or the “I have 2 jobs” employees are impacted during the next round before those of us that are truly working

AI is taking over!!!

No one's job is ever guaranteed. But still, it looks like job security here will become more and more uncertain as time goes on? I would like to be wrong.

This shows you how much the care. Then again Satya Nadella is known to be a completely different, horrible to be around, person off camera... —  read more 

Either rip off the bandaid quick, or just do it stealth like last year.

The WARN Act requires an employer to notify employees, in writing, 60 days before a layoff, and pay the employee for those 60 days, in addition to any severance the employee may be entitled to. Unfortunately, some employers attempt to circumvent the... —  read more 

Once the damage is done, it is difficult to repair it. It will never be clear to me why some of the most knowledgeable employees got laid off, while some others, who in essence are not needed at all because they do not add any value, are still... —  read more 

Should I be worried about these layoffs? What are the chances my offer gets rescinded?

Hope everyone is taken care off financially, such a tough time for everyone involved.

This is 11 years old, but it's even more true today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeoBWzIRuic

4th quarter will be a lot worse. SLT has already moved into the planning phase. I have been informed damage control has been top of tongue for July.

Is the ratio disproportionate?

Is the ratio disproportionate?

Is the ratio disproportionate?

@tomwarren Twitter is reporting Microsoft's layoffs today have affected employees in the following divisions: • HoloLens • Microsoft Edge • marketing • 343 Industries • Bethesda