Increasing evidence of a widespread layoff coming in June at MSFT, apparently as many as 30,000 mainly US employees and contractors. Three different general managers in three very different parts of the business confirm that a “stealth” RIF is already underway. LinkedIn also reported to be heavily targeted.
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The Microsoft Monks have spoken....positive attrition is their new mantra
My friend.
My friend who is a Senior Dev Lead in a data center supply chain group got layed off today. Wasnt clear how widespread it was in his group/org.
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There's definitely major restructuring happening and the layoffs have begun. Not just contractors but full-time employees. Friend of mine was just laid off for "failing to contribute significant business value" even though has always exceeded his targets. Been there for 14 years...
My contract in Azure data was cut due to FY 2021 budget cuts. 7/1 is my last day, and it was originally supposed to end later this year.
I'm a v- and was told that my contract due to end 6/30 would be extended 90 days a few months back, but found out the budget had been pulled 2 days ago leaving me 6 days to find a new role.
I'm in Azure Cloud and we are growing and hiring good people with cloud, data, AI, apps experience. Good people are always wanted !
Lots of international student with OPT visa has been layoffs all over the US.
At the same time, they're taking away American jobs. Trump will suspend both H1b and OPT very soon.
Can confirm this, I'm a v- at Microsoft and was recently informed that 30th of June will be my last day. It's devastating considering I'm an international student and have little time to find something now
I think there would be layoffs. I know a few colleagues who posted anonymous questions on restructuring and layoffs during townhall and they are not answered. In a way, I am glad the Black Lives Matter emerge. There is so much discrimination. Snubs here and there, keeping the outsiders out of the email /information circulations and only within same color people... Discrimination takes place subtly and in so many ways and I won't be surprised if it also taints any RIF. You can't possible squeal every time it is done to you. Minorities may be Blacks in US but it may be Muslims in Europe or non Indians in some Asian offices. It is disgusting because everyone just wants to do productive work, not watch out for a manager or colleague constant plotting to replace you with his clan.
Things are going good but there are two major forces in play right now. Enterprises are embracing Azure at an amazing pace, this creates a ton of extra revenue and will serve us well in future. At the same time, enterprise departments are significantly cutting budgets, let's say this is true for Fortune 1000 (or so)... This will be painful a bit but I think the two forces will balance out and we'll be just fine in the long term.
Now knowing SN a bit, I am sure there is several parallel teams concurrently working on different reorgs - each of them will require headcount reduction but we'll probably be adding headcount as well. So, that's where we are right now...
30K? No way...
I would say this should be true. The 30k number are most likely to be vendors. Sorry to them and their families.
Look at the cov 19 effect, a lot of people lost their jobs, people are afraid to sit close to the others.
The cov 19 affected people count is keep on climbing. Lots of small businesses get closed.
Keep your eyes open and just use your instinct tp judge, will MSFT keep all 200k peoples jobs and burn the cash?
No way.
I don't buy it. I'm currently looking for 3 v-'s as we speak.
30k of FTEs is not possible. Cutting v- by 20-30% would get close to that. If your getting shafted in Connects and getting fired, that’s likely more of a personal issue between you and your manager(s). They would just RIF you without the 60 days internal search access rather than the the HR battle. I know from personal experience.
We already have a Technical Delivery Management Director, Operations Program Manager and principal manager replied to this thread.
We'll need a GM or level 67 above to clarify this 30k cut?
To the person who asked if this is a true and justified anxiety...
We're in a perfect storm. We have the recession, end of the fiscal year, and uncertainties about the future of the pandemic and social unrest.
With FY end, we'll inevitably see restructuring and some layoffs. It's already happened at MSN. But FTE layoffs probably won't be very high at this point. There's no way to know what the future brings, which of course causes anxiety.
If it's true that vendor budget has been cut 30-40%, my guess is that would account for 30,000 vendor jobs cut, does it not?
For anyone who's worried, redirect your anxiety in productive ways. Brush up your resume and add to your skill set. That's always good advice.
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I am a Technical Delivery Management Director here in Chandler, AZ - we are still hiring both employees and contractors. The hiring pace has slowed big time, but we are still hiring.
The 30K number is nuts.
I am an Operations Program Manager and I have not heard about any of this. Here is what I know or have experienced:
Why does this thread have 10K views in a few days?
I thought that this is not valid info, but if I am correct, why so much interest in this topic?
Other Microsoft threads barely have a thousand or two in views? Also, folks are reacting, thumbs up and down - other threads have nothing...
So, is this a true and justified anxiety???
I'd say keep preparing for interviews no matter what. Better be safe than sorry.
Msft laid off 5000 employees in 2008-09 and 18000 in 2014. Now it is letting 30000 ppl go?
By 2100, they will be laying off billions of people.
COVID was an Unforeseeable business circumstance, they do not need to file WARN and neither have many of the other large organizations that have already had layoffs.
WARN is no longer necessary since the COVID bailout packages were approved.
I am a principal manager and never heard about it, we do have vendor budget cut but that decision has been made two months ago. Actually we are still recruiting despite I was asked to slow down and need even higher level approval for some cases. But overall, it is ok
Msft laid off 5000 employees in 2008-09 and 18000 in 2014. Now it is letting 30000 ppl go?
Confirm that v- sill be impacted, reduction of over 25% of v-
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What kind of trash site is this. "Increasing evidence"? Show us
Yep - and their managers are deliberately misleading employees and telling them the projects they're working on have clear business impact, but then downplaying or marginalizing your impact as a means of justifying the IR\ZR mark on your review - then using the "Performance issues" narrative as a means to fire you w/o compensation of any sort. They also claim your position isn't closed and therefore not a RIF - just saw my old job posted this morning. Another sham - they'll say they have positions open and will probably schedule loops, but hiring is almost completely closed of course - so they're simply scamming people out of severance & benefits.
If you have an IR in your recent "Connect", time to start looking and prepare to accept a package.
Microsoft gives 60 days to find a job internally (for employees) so they will inform the employees and issue the warn notice on the same day (based on past layoffs)
There's a fairly high likelihood that Microsoft would have to file a WARN notice 60 days before layoffs begin, because a number that large would probably constitute 33% or more of the active workforce at a site. Of course, that depends a lot on the definitions of "site".
Source: https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ETA/Layoff/pdfs/_EmployerWARN2003.pdf
WARN is triggered when a covered employer:
Lays off 500 or more workers (not counting part-time workers) at a single site of employment during a 30-day period; or lays off 50-499 workers (not counting part-time workers), and these layoffs constitute 33% of the employer’s total active workforce (not counting part-time workers) at the single site of employment.
WARN notices in Washington, in case you want to track it: https://esd.wa.gov/about-employees/WARN
A former coworker (from msft) posted she was laid off today.
I have a friend just got hired at China Shanghai this month, if MSFT is going to layoff people, why they hired a new person in China Shanghai?
What is the source of this info? 30,000 is extremely drastic.