It's hard not to take layoffs personally. I will never again work long hours like I did here. I always tried to meet all goals despite being extremely overworked and in the end I get laid off. I'm frustrated because I think there isn't much logic... — read more 

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-california-took-over-the-world-180981660/

What is the Microsoft Cross Solutions team and what are they responsible for.

Why Microsoft is at it they should take a hint from Meta and fire all midlevel useless Microsoft Managers that manage other useless Microsoft managers. Like hitting two buzzards with one stick.

The latest round impacted about 150 employees from a team responsible of convincing medium-size companies to adopt cloud services such as Azure server rentals and Microsoft 365 productivity... — read more 

The impact of Microsoft Corp.’s plan to lay off about 10,000 workers will reportedly be felt at LinkedIn. The Information reported Monday that LinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned business- and employment-focused social network, laid off workers in its... — read more 

The days of the company cult following are over. Its a job, not a cult, not a way of life, and certainly not your family. Just move on to the next job. Forget all the feels good and warm fuzzy thoughts of drinking coco with BillG by the fireplace... — read more 

The next phase of Big Tech... https://novum.substack.com/i/101103540/big-tech-stagnation

Microsoft is targeting hardware divisions, like HoloLens, Surface, and Xbox divisions, as a part of the restructuring process. The company said it would lay off around 10,000... — read more 

Microsoft is not slowing down with layoffs, it seems. GitHub is the latest victim with ten percent of employees (that's anywhere between 300 and 400 if I'm not mistaken). That's a small number compared to the tens of thousands we've been hearing... — read more 

Details here: https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Datawatch/Mass-layoffs-at-U.S.-tech-giants-help-startups-secure-IT-talent

a bunch of v-dash people laid off in the North American M&O today, likely due to the very recent merging of the Canada/US M&Os

Welp another team gone today. The entire DSS training team let go. Lots of good people gone.

Long ago, I remember when hiring on to MS I was told: “You have a job for life if you want it. Microsoft has never laid off and never will. The company takes great pride in this fact and deservedly so has bragging rights. What makes this possible... — read more 

Take a look: https://twitter.com/Truthhu3011650/status/1623670466815877120/photo/1

Hi all, we received the email this morning that in Ireland they will cut 120 roles. It isn't certain that this is the final number.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is better! It never went... — read more 

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.