https://wccftech.com/former-bungie-veteran-next-halo/
retaliatory layoffs at Microsoft
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/activision-supplier-laid-off-160-100000528.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/activision-supplier-laid-off-160-100000528.html
"Chief brand officer Kathleen Hall is leaving her post at Microsoft."
https://brand-innovators.com/news/kathleen-hall-to-depart-microsoft/
Microsoft causing job cuts
https://investorplace.com/2024/06/perion-layoffs-2024-what-to-know-about-the-latest-peri-job-cuts/... — read more
"Software company Perion Network has embarked on a streamlining and cost-cutting process after Microsoft changed the advertising rules"
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/sjdai5d8r
So now they can argue it's some fringe right-wing thing
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2024/06/22/ibm-faces-age-discrimination-lawsuit-from-former-executives/
Dying or dead market
https://metro.co.uk/2024/06/23/video-games-peaked-xbox-360-era-downhill-since-21087390/amp/
Why Microsoft laid off everybody
https://www.xboxachievements.com/news/xbox-matt-bo--y-hints-leadership-change-deciding-factor-itango-gameworks-closure/
"The studio's final title can now be officially considered a failure following the shutdown of Arkane Austin."
https://www.gamepressure.com/newsroom/microsoft-and-bethesda-offer-refunds-to-redfall-players-for-unrel/z36f6a
"The annual "Employee Signals" survey showed a drop from 69% to 62% in positive responses."
https://www.businessinsider.com/fewer-microsoft-employees-getting-good-deal-internal-survey-2024-6
XBox executives jumping ship
https://www.silicon.co.uk/e-management/jobs/microsoft-xbox-marketing-chief-568388 https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/17/24180241/major-nelson-larry-hryb-unity-community-xbox
"The downsizing by Meta and Microsoft signals a strategic pivot as these companies adapt to new economic realities"
https://newsghana.com.gh/meta-reduces-lagos-office-space-following-global-layoffs/
"Microsoft continue to shed employees in a bid to satisfy investors. "
https://www.cityam.com/tesla-google-microsoft-and-tiktok-push-tech-layoffs-total-to-nearly-100000-this-year/
Mass Layoffs at Microsoft-owned GitHub
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/what-the-ceo-of-microsoft-owned-github-has-to-say-on-the-company-laying-off-80-of-its-employees-in-india/articleshow/110948134.cms
Microsoft layoffs in Africa
https://guardian.ng/like-microsoft-meta-reduces-lagos-office-space-workforce/
https://www.techloy.com/microsoft-shuts-down-its-africa-development-centre-in-nigeria/
Microsoft Shuts Down its Africa Development Centre in Nigeria
We Went Undercover at Microsoft but Got Laid Off Before We Could Learn Anything
https://hard-drive.net/hd/video-games/we-went-undercover-at-microsoft-but-got-laid-off-before-we-could-learn-anything/
Microsoft’s recent layoffs cast a heavy shadow over this year’s Xbox Showcase
https://www.destructoid.com/microsofts-recent-layoffs-cast-a-heavy-shadow-over-this-years-xbox-showcase/
Microsoft telecom layoffs
https://www.lightreading.com/cloud/microsoft-to-quit-affirmed-and-metaswitch-in-telecom-retreat
"Public trust in Microsoft as stewards of the studios it spent years gobbling up has been shaken"
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/obsidian-ceo-responds-to-worries-xbox-could-shut-them-down-too-im-not-worried-about-tomorrow/
"The confusion of it all extends to Microsoft, too, which recently shut down three studios and absorbed a fourth into another"
https://www.polygon.com/24177290/video-game-industry-layoffs-studio-closures-record
"Speaking to PC Gamer, the exec and founder expressed his distress at the wave of layoffs and studio closures"
https://www.pcgamesinsider.biz/news/74519/obsidian-not-worried-about-microsoft-shutting-the-studio-down/
CWA Charges Microsoft Supplier Lionbridge With Unfair Layoffs Of Unionizing QA Testers
https://www.benzinga.com/general/gaming/24/06/39298491/cwa-charges-microsoft-supplier-lionbridge-with-unfair-layoffs-of-unionizing-qa-testers
Mass Layoffs At Microsoft
https://finimize.com/content/mass-layoffs-across-tech-and-beyond-signal-tough-economic-times
Microsoft retaliatory layoffs in "union busting" move
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/activision-qa-supplier-lionbridge-accused-of-retaliatory-layoffs-in-union-busting-move
CWA files Unfair Labor Practice charges against Microsoft supplier Lionbridge
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/cwa-files-unfair-labor-practice-charges-against-microsoft-supplier-lionbridge
Microsoft retaliatory layoffs
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/cwa-accuses-activision-qa-supplier-lionbridge-of-retaliatory-layoffs
"I have to run a sustainable business inside the company and grow" means that I lay off thousands (some of whom acquired) to "grow"
https://www.trueachievements.com/news/phil-spencer-layoffs
I lay off thousands of people while my boss pretends the company is worth 3,000 billion dollars
https://gameworldobserver.com/2024/06/10/phil-spencer-tango-arkane-studio-closures-xbox-business
An indie game company used a LA billboard to slam recent layoffs from big publishers
https://www.neowin.net/news/an-indie-game-company-used-a-la-billboard-to-slam-recent-layoffs-from-big-publishers/
OpenAI.com Traffic Plunges 60%
http://techrights.org/n/2024/06/07/The_Bubble_Has_Burst_OpenAI_com_Traffic_Plunges_60_in_One_Month.shtml
Is Microsoft trying to commit su----e?
https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2024/06/is-microsoft-trying-to-commit-.html
Microsoft: get laid off and STFU
https://www.law360.com/corporate/articles/1844603/microsoft-blasts-gamers-bid-to-add-to-activision-appeal
Measured in executives, Microsoft is laying off about four Nadellas
Interesting wages data re: recently announced Microsoft layoffs. Putting it up for visibility, and as something to think about, hard. “According to an analysis by the Associated Press, the pay of CEOs running companies in the S&P 500 rose 13... — read more
Azure hiring or laying off?
Why do they hire in Azure if they have to lay off?
"Faced with greater expenses, Microsoft is cutting costs, which in this case means getting rid of employees."
https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/04/microsoft_plans_to_cut_about/
Microsoft Azure Laying Off Thousands, Not Hundreds
https://techrights.org/n/2024/06/04/Microsoft_Azure_Laying_Off_Thousands_Not_Hundreds.shtml
Microsoft will slap Performance Improvement Plans on a lot of employees so they can fire them off with giving them unemployment benefits
Across town the airplane company HR won't think twice about slapping Performance Improvement Plans on employees so the HR people can fire them and deny the employee Unemployment Benefits.
Microsoft: layoffs are now called "RESTRUCTURING". That's like calling DEMOLITION a "RESTRUCTURING".
They also say "Cost Control Efforts". Wow, a euphemisms party.