Topics regarding layoffs at Microsoft Corp.

"An increasing number of Silicon Valley investors and Wall Street analysts are starting to ring the alarm bells over the countless billions"

https://futurism.com/investors-concerned-ai-making-money | Source: Futurism

Because there have been so many Microsoft layoffs

https://gizmodo.com/blizzard-unionization-activision-world-of-warcraft-microsoft-2000478656

"Microsoft debt issuance/retirement net - total for the quarter ending March 31, 2024 was $14.585B, a 933.43% decline year-over-year."

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MSFT/microsoft/debt-issuance-retirement-net-total https://www.reuters.com/article/business/microsoft-to-raise-2-7-billion-via-bond-sale-idUSL2N0DC3C3/

"When compared to layoffs from companies like Microsoft, they may seem minuscule when the Redmond firm fired 18 000 people in its latest spree"

https://htxt.co.za/2024/07/the-10-biggest-mass-layoffs-among-african-tech-firms/

Microsoft Implements Strategic Layoffs

https://www.thesoftwarereport.com/microsoft-implements-strategic-layoffs/

"World of Warcraft developers have joined those from Bethesda Game Studios and formed a union to protect themselves from greedy corpos."

https://headtopics.com/za/world-of-warcraft-devs-form-alliance-against-big-tech-56398596

Pluralistic: AI's productivity theater

It's all here... https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/25/accountability-sinks/#work-harder-not-smarter

Microsoft cuts 30,000 jobs, says the cuts are "growth", and it should be celebrated as the buzzword it keeps using to inflate the stock price

https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/07/24/big-teach-cuts-half-a-million-jobs-blames-ai/

So the "AI" bubble did not save Nadella

How much did the company's debt grow by June 30? Can you pay back the debt with "AI credits" in Azure?

"One Anonymous Activision employee came forward and expressed his concerns regarding the shift in the working system within the company"

https://fandomwire.com/concept-artists-were-then-forced-call-of-duty-artists-allegedly-made-to-rely-on-ai-for-at-least-1-bundle-only-weeks-after Microsoft continues to lay off people, knowing that some CG staff cannot really replace them but budget... — read more

The real reason for these layoffs: Microsoft is running out of money (111.4 billion in debt)

https://www.hrdive.com/news/dei-cuts-microsoft-woke-backlash/722281/

Activision Sold Computer-Generated Call of Duty Cosmetic, Approved CG Use That Led to Layoffs: Report

CG, NOT... — read more

"Microsoft is also on the list of companies affected. After reducing its workforce in Nigeria by half, Microsoft plans to scale back its office"

https://biznakenya.com/multinationals-exit-nigeria-economy/

Microsoft’s diversity team downsizing sparks controversy

https://www.baselinemag.com/news/microsofts-diversity-team-downsizing-sparks-controversy/

Bethesda Games Studios forms “wall-to-wall” union amid industry layoffs

Employees at Bethesda Games Studios have announced they are joining the Communication Workers of America (CWA), in what they call “the first wall-to-wall union at a Microsoft game studio”. According to Sky News, 8,000 video game employees lost their... — read more

Microsoft to shrink its Lagos office two months after laying off ADC engineering team

https://techpoint.africa/2024/07/22/microsoft-to-shrink-lagos-office/

Desperate for income because XBox is losing so much money

https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/20/microsoft_game_pass_ftc/

Half of Microsoft workers in Nigeria laid off

https://newsghana.com.gh/microsoft-reduces-nigerian-office-space-shifts-roles-to-kenya/

"ramping layoffs affecting the gaming industry with Bethesda and other parts of Microsoft hit early last year with layoffs."

https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/fallout-starfield-bethesda-game-studio-union/

No remorse from Sathya

On the happenings around the world. Whatever happened to empathy and sympathy

241 Bethesda Developers Unionize

https://xboxera.com/2024/07/20/241-bethesda-developers-unionize/

Microsoft Lays Off Half of Its Workforce in Nigeria

https://techcabal.com/2024/07/19/microsoft-shrinks-nigerian-office-from-six-to-two-floors/

Microsoft right now

https://x.com/MattHighton/status/1814210407445201131

Reboot 15x

Down, down, down

Microsoft and CrowdStrike Outage Explained: Airport Chaos, Hospital Cancelations and More Microsoft suffered a massive, ongoing global IT outage on Friday morning, affecting airports, airlines, banks, hospitals and broadcasters around the... — read more

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