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Another new year, another round of job cuts at Microsoft (www.theregister.com)
submitted 5 days ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 53 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Unidentified sources who spoke to BI claimed Microsoft would likely backfill the jobs cut this month, meaning there wouldn't be much of a reduction in overall headcount. Microsoft confirmed this to be the case.

This sounds more like a mass firing than layoffs, but I guess that's semantics.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 46 points 5 days ago (3 children)

This sounds like the Circuit City paradigm, which is to fire all your expensive experienced workers and try to fill their roles with fresh-faced grads or, more likely, H1B people from India at the absolute minimum pay scale.

And we saw how that worked for Circuit City.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 16 points 5 days ago

I wonder if that's why Microsoft's recent products are, you know, the way they are.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today -1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

To be fair Microsoft sells flushed out products and their only innovation is worthless, so they don't really need talkent.

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago

Consumer side perhaps there is little desired innovation from MS, but most of their sales are enterprise and cloud, the last of which is a rapidly evolving market where talent can be put to good use.