Microsoft is Cutting 3% of All Workers (cnbc.com)
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/05/13/1432232/microsoft-is-cutting-3-of-all-workers
- Source link: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/13/microsoft-is-cutting-3percent-of-workers-across-the-software-company.html
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Re: not enough (Score:2)
"The money isn't flowing [at Microsoft]"
Hahaha lol, that's the funniest shit I've heard all week
Re: (Score:2)
I was mostly with you until you started going on about gold-based currency. There were also recessions when gold was king. Even gold has imaginary value, it is only worth what it is because of the balance of supply and demand, just like for any commodity or service. Wishing for a return to gold, is like wishing for a return to the barter system, where everybody could touch and feel what they were trading.
Will they fire the CEO and marketing? (Score:2)
And what passes for "security experts" and "UI experts" with these cretins, please? No? Just more enshittification? Well. No surprise, really.
Sales are doing just fine (Score:2)
And the company is plenty profitable. The CEO isn't firing people because mistakes were made resulting in declining revenue. They're doing it because of recession is coming and they're going to need a ton of cash for stock BuyBacks to protect wealthy investors.
The economy is fundamentally set up against you. And you probably voted for it if you're around here. I think most of us who haven't figured that out are just too old now. You get incredibly stubborn past the age of 40. If that teenage stubbornnes
Re: Will they fire the CEO and marketing? (Score:2)
Why would they fire the CEO? Microsoft has performed amazingly under Nadella and Hood.
If you don't like MS's products, stop using them. Don't complain about a CEO that's delivering what their customers want.
I stopped using Windows like 25 years ago. But I do hold a notable amount of MSFT. I have no use for their products, but I'm not going to sit here and complain that they don't make MS Linux; that's not what the paying customers want.
3% (Score:2)
So, if you're 6 feet tall, your hair is going to be cut 2" shorter. Not so great for bald guys.
Everyone knows Trump is going to cause a recession (Score:2)
The only question is how bad and whether the Democrats will take back the House and Senate so that they can limit the damage for his last two years.
I get that Trump won because of voter suppression but he still had 77 million people voting for him.
And we've got hard numbers about how many people voted for him because they were panicking over trans girls and it was a lot.
If you're one of them congratulations you're a 50 year old man who's about to lose his job in the worst economy America has kno
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This, ladies and gentlemen, is what Trump Derangement Syndrome looks like.
There are a lot of tech companies (Score:2)
That are laying off those that underperform. 10 years ago every tech company was rapidly hiring and they didn't care who they got, now that the space isn't its competitive they are laying off those who don't perform and calling it restructuring
C Suite (Score:3)
I bet they don't cut 3% of the C suite.
cutting staff is important (Score:2)
If you don't have any products or services you wish to develop and can't grow your business then what other choice is there but to reduce costs like payroll.
If on the other hand you are managing a successful business, you will find things for people to do that have a higher return than what you spend on their salary.
The AI gamble (Score:2)
....hasn't paid off.
Cetainly more than these 3% will have to go later this year.
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Wait, I thought boosting worker productivity (or taking over entirely) so you can trim the headcount was the promise of AI that we're all upset about. Then this is not a failure, but a success.
Re: The AI gamble (Score:2)
Most of their AI gamble is tied up in OpenAI though. I doubt this will have much further impact. Microsoft doesn't have much of a history of layoffs. The pandemic has exposed a lot of malinvestment that's still unwinding.