Microsoft To Lay Off As Many As 9,000 Employees in Latest Round (seattletimes.com)
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/07/02/1330223/microsoft-to-lay-off-as-many-as-9000-employees-in-latest-round
- Source link: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/microsoft-to-lay-off-as-many-as-9000-employees-in-latest-round/
> In an ongoing effort to streamline its workforce, Microsoft said that as much as 4%, or roughly 9,100, of the company's employees [1]could be affected by Wednesday's layoffs . The move follows two waves of layoffs in May and June, which saw Microsoft fire more than 6,000 employees, almost 2,300 of whom were based in Washington.
[1] https://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/microsoft-to-lay-off-as-many-as-9000-employees-in-latest-round/
Re: Suspicious (Score:2)
MS recently bought a lot of game studios, I think that's where the lay offs are concentrated.
Future is bright (Score:5, Insightful)
When you combine continuing layoffs by profitable companies over the last few years, AI displacing workers, and this beautiful spending bill that cuts services to millions while codifying tax breaks for the 1% and increasing the deficit by 4 trillion, the future looks bright indeed.
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Other than graphic designers, is AI actually displacing workers anywhere, or are companies just cutting back on their workforce, making everyone who's left do more work, and using "replaced by AI" as an excuse to deflect the blame?
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I think it's a mix of all of it, in equal parts, with AI's usefulness making sizable, but a lowest percentage of the reason.
I don't think most people here care (Score:3)
About the service cuts because they don't think it will affect them.
If you don't use those services well, you're still fucked.
Those services are literally trillions of dollars in your local economy.
What do you think is going to happen to your job when hundreds of billions of dollars just exits the US economy?
That's the thing I wish people would explain to these Trump voting morons. You're not going to make it out of this unscathed. You will probably lose your house in a few years when you ar
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I've had 2 jobs in less than 3 years (dodged a layoff by jumping to a sinking ship). I'm tired of tech and feeling like I can't plan even one year of my life out without 5 years in savings
Nothing is safe (Score:2)
There is not a single safe career outside of being born rich.
Even healthcare now is under assault. Since Trump's first election we've transferred about $20 trillion with a t dollars to the 1%. And that's on top of the 55 trillion we had already transferred in the proceeding 40 years.
Our economy is just too top heavy. There isn't enough in the middle or the bottom to keep the thing going. There's no circulation of currency or wealth. It's like if capitalism was a machine and we took the oil out of it
This is a middle manager culling (Score:2)
> As was the case with the May layoffs, Microsoft is looking to reduce the number of layers of managers that stand between individual contributors and top executives, the person said.
MS is in no way hurting. They made a profit of [1] $26 Billion [cnbc.com] in March, far ahead of Wall Street projections.
As other companies are also specifically targeting that mid-management layer, this is a possible sign that the Cult of the MBA may be waning.
[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/02/microsoft-laying-off-about-9000-employees-in-latest-round-of-cuts.html#:~:text=Microsoft%20said%20Wednesday%20that%20it,of%20Microsoft's%202026%20fiscal%20year.
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Nobody said MS was "hurting". The claim is that they are a dead man walking and that claim is accurate. They will surely walk for anothe 10 or maybe even 15 years, but their products have gotten so abysmally bad that they have no long-term future.
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Their consumer products? Thats not even half of their revenue anymore.
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Who says I am talking about their consumer products?
There's no such thing (Score:2)
Dude this is 2025 we don't have reams and reams of middle running around doing nothing. Every manager I've worked with in the last 20 years has had regular duties on top of punching my time card
Management got it start as a means of busting unions but companies have long since turned to professional Union bustering law firms for that
When you see a bunch of middle management getting fired it's because they're getting rid of the old people and they don't want to get sued for age discrimination.
If Microsoft wants to survive (Score:2)
Survive as a maker of desktop operating systems they need to repent for making windows a bloated spammy pile of shit and start from scratch forget legacy and new stuff rolled into one operating system, make two operating systems one that resembles win_7 for legacy applications and one like win_10 for the cutting edge new stuff, and dont enshitify it with spammy advertising and cut the telemetry out too, I wish Microsoft would do something worthwhile again but I have a feeling they are too arrogant and compl
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> I wish Microsoft would do something worthwhile again but I have a feeling they are too arrogant and complacent so they will continue to circle the drain until someday they finally get liquidated by their shareholders
Inded. These days they cannot get anything right. Example: Just today Teams screwed me over. I minimally increased the speaker volume and some mechanism panicked apparently at the system-signal for speaker adjustment and then I could not hear the other side anymore. Leving and rejoining (either and both sides) did not help. Audio-settings did not help. Now, there apparently used to be a setting to switch this crap off or reset it, but not anymore. Nothing helped and I had to call the other person on the pho
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You know the little envelope overlay that's supposed to appear on the Outlook icon in the taskbar and systray to indicate you've gotten a new email? Mine randomly stopped working about a year ago. Icon never changes. Countless reports of this happening all over the internet. No clear cause or solution.
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Indeed. This is essentually the same when rats and other pests start to slowly crawl into a building.
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Microsoft doesn't give two shits about Windows anymore. The only thing that matters to them is growing Azure and increasing AI (Copilot) adoption. If anything, Windows is nothing more than a Copilot delivery service now.
start from scratch forget legacy (Score:2)
I disagree, that would be terrible and nobody would go into their new OS that doesn't support anything that exists. The reason Windows is so in demand is BECAUSE it supports the legacy stuff, especially in the business and industrial sectors.
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Thats why I suggest two operating systems, one for legacy and one for moving forward on new software, as it is now windows is getting pretty damn bloated rolling it all into one operating system and it is causing problems
Can they lay off the Windows backup team? (Score:2)
The biggest source of notification spam is from them. Plus Internet Explorer never harrassed you about being your default browser like Edge does.
laid off; not fired. There's a difference (Score:2)
Layoffs can file for unemployment and COBRA healthcare coverage. Fired people, as far as I know, can't. In the old days this distinction used to affect the chances for future employment. If you were laid off you were probably older or more compensated or both and considered to be too much weight on the balance sheet. If you were fired you were considered bad news / do-not-hire.
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If you are fired, you can still file for COBRA and unemployment insurance benefits so as the reason you were fired was not because of illegal activities.
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Intel only ever had their superior manufaturing process, which they had from making memory. As soon as that was gone, it became obvious how bad technologucally theor designs actually were and how far behind the competition. Conceptionally pretty much the same as Boeing, or, since that is the topic, Microsoft. These companies never really could compete, except in a dominant position. Time for them to die. They join plenty of others on the trash-heap of tech hostory. And in most cases, death was well deserved