https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/layoffs-in-tech-industry-seem-to-be-far-from-over-101731147388812.html covers Microsoft too
Layoffs coming soon
For these brutal updates y'all keep making to your product suite. You're fired.
Microsoft Layoffs 2025
If the market makes a turn soon, do you think there will be Microsoft layoffs? Any chatter, news or rumors?
"disappointing Azure revenue forecasts"
https://siliconangle.com/2024/11/01/ai-drives-cloud-resurgence-costing-lot/
"All the news we got to hear were the layoffs or studio shutdowns."
https://fandomwire.com/xbox-acquisition-activision-blizzard-uphill-battles/
Microsoft Shares Drop on Disappointing Azure Growth Forecast
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-cloud-fuels-stronger-expected-203124073.html https://www.barrons.com/articles/microsoft-earnings-stock-price-e12bc920
Microsoft becoming a less attractive workplace
https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-a-year-of-war-nvidia-overtakes-microsoft-as-best-firm-to-work-for-in-israel-db/ Leaked Microsoft polls show employees feel much worse about culture and leadership than at the beginning of the... — read more
Microsoft down 4% after-hours (after the report)
Bubble? Why the CEO pay boost?
Bad products need to be renamed a lot to hide past failure (or abandon brands whose reputation is tarnished)
https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/28/microsft_branding_correction_site/
Despite Rampant Layoffs, Microsoft’s CEO Gets Over $70 Million
So, let’s take a quick 2024 Microsoft/Xbox layoffs count. To bring in the crisp, new 2024 year, Microsoft laid off almost 2,000 employees. Between Activision Blizzard, Zenimax, and Xbox itself, many passionate (now former) employees’ dream jobs were... — read more
Salesforce CEO calls Copilot a "flop"
https://www.inkl.com/news/arm-vs-qualcomm-legal-battle-threatens-the-future-of-copilot-pcs-as-microsoft-pays-ceo-astronomical-amount-and-salesforce-ceo-calls-copilot-a-flop
‘The rich will always get richer on the backs of others’
https://www.themarysue.com/the-rich-will-always-get-richer-on-the-backs-of-others-microsoft-ceo-gets-30-million-pay-raise-in-year-of-staggering-layoffs-and-closures/
So mass layoffs are officially considered a success story?
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/microsoft-ceo-earns-usd30-6-million-more-despite-laying-off-over-2-000-employees-in-2024-salary-package-represents-a-63-percent-raise-from-the-previous-year
Rewarded for MASS LAYOFFS
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/satya-nadella-s-jaw-dropping-pay-jump-despite-microsofts-huge-layoffs-revealed-101729864809217.html... — read more
The more Microsoft focuses on AI, the worse it will be for us
I can't understand people who are championing AI. Don't you realize that you're basically cheering on the very thing that will most likely be responsible for the elimination of your job? I understand that it's inevitable, but why people are happy... — read more
While Microsoft Lays Off Tens of Thousands Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's 2024 pay rose 63% to $79 million on stock awards
https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadellas-2024-pay-rose-63-to-79-million-on-stock-awards/article68794494.ece
IBM debt numbers now out
For latest quarter, ending Sept 30, debt up 300 million dollars, or 100 million per month https://finbox.com/NYSE:IBM/explorer/total_debt/ the profits are spent buying mostly worthless companies for their revenues, faking revenue "growth".
Azure - big round coming
Big round of layoffs are coming to Azure. They are selling the lack of planned work this semester as focusing on security and quality… consider this your warning
Microsoft destroyed the biggest franchises with its mass layoffs
https://fandomwire.com/diablo-4s-redemption-ruined-how-microsofts-timing-to-axe-blizzards-plan-to-fix-the-games-biggest-annoyance-couldnt-have-been-worse/
So many layoffs, Microsoft lied to FTC
https://www.eurogamer.net/its-been-12-months-since-microsoft-purchased-activision-blizzard-so-whats-changed "Most notably, perhaps, we have unfortunately seen a devastating number of layoffs across Microsoft, including its gaming divisions, and... — read more
XBox layoffs, now no more XBox
up next: no, it's not true; ok, it's true, but only in this area; ok, maybe not only this area; ok, no further comment https://twistedvoxel.com/xbox-will-stop-selling-consoles-in-middle-east/
"Microsoft cancelled the project after laying off staff at the company in January 2023"
https://www.glitched.online/halo-infinite-2-was-reportedly-in-development-before-being-cancelled/
"Microsoft has been at the forefront of these layoffs, cutting jobs at its African Development Centres in Lagos and Kenya."
https://innovation-village.com/tech-industry-layoffs-surge-major-companies-restructure-amid-economic-challenges/
Some Developers Are Skipping Xbox
https://gamerant.com/microsoft-why-developers-skipping-xbox/
Any Microsoft workers involved?
https://www.highereducationinquirer.org/2024/10/bloomberg-exposes-harrisburg-university.html
Led by Microsoft (the layoffs champion)
https://gameworldobserver.com/2024/10/03/game-companies-laid-off-over-1000-industry-professionals-in-september-highest-since-april
More Details For Recent Microsoft Layoffs
https://www.imdb.com/news/ni64854768/
Microsoft Poaching Amazon Employees!
Amazon employees return to home!
It's over. Microsoft discontinues HoloLens 2, ending its foray into VR.
https://www.inkl.com/news/it-s-over-microsoft-discontinues-hololens-2-ending-its-foray-into-vr
"Corporate Reshuffling" means layoffs
https://mmos.com/news/microsofts-activision-blizzard-cuts-nearly-400-jobs
Microsoft is discontinuing its HoloLens headsets
https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/1/24259369/microsoft-hololens-2-discontinuation-support https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-discontinues-hololens-2/
Tech layoffs cross 1 lakh: Cisco, Microsoft cut more jobs in September; and other ‘job cut warnings’
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/tech-layoffs-cross-1-lakh-cisco-microsoft-cut-more-jobs-in-september-and-other-job-cut-warnings/articleshow/113837708.cms
This leaves out the latest (third) round of 400
https://www.timesnownews.com/technology-science/tech-layoffs-over-16000-employees-from-samsung-cisco-microsoft-and-more-lost-their-jobs-in-september-article-113833527
Microsoft’s latest game division layoffs affect nearly 400 Activision-Blizzard employees
https://massivelyop.com/2024/09/30/microsofts-latest-game-division-layoffs-affect-nearly-400-activision-blizzard-employees/ https://yovenice.com/2024/09/30/video-game-giant-set-to-lay-off-west-la-workers-report/
Activision Blizzard faces more layoffs
https://www.gamereactor.eu/activision-blizzard-faces-more-layoffs-1438583/
More Details For Recent Microsoft Layoffs Reveals Team Overwatch 2 And Diablo 4 Got Struck The Hardest
... — read more
Microsoft Lay Off Hundreds of California Workers
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/activision-blizzard-lay-off-hundreds-193121495.html https://wccftech.com/activision-blizzard-lay-off-hundreds-of-california-workers/
Video game maker Activision Blizzard laying off 400 workers in Irvine, LA
https://www.dailynews.com/2024/09/26/video-gamemaker-activision-blizzard-laying-off-400-workers-in-irvine-la/
Another wave of Microsoft layoffs
https://www.ocregister.com/2024/09/26/video-gamemaker-activision-blizzard-laying-off-400-workers-in-irvine-la/ https://www.dailybulletin.com/2024/09/26/video-gamemaker-activision-blizzard-laying-off-400-workers-in-irvine-la/