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Microsoft boss Satya Nadella will earn a wallet-busting $79.1m (£60.9m) this financial year, up 63 percent on his compensation for 2023.

The huge boost to Nadella's pay in both cash and stock, announced by Microsoft last night, comes after a positive year overall for the company's financial revenues - but a turbulent 12 months for its employees.

2024 has seen two mass layoffs at Microsoft, with 1900 staff laid off in January, before a further 650 Xbox employees were shown the door in September.

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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 137 points 1 month ago (20 children)

Because of the devastating year for layoffs.

The purpose of a system is what it does.

[–] Nojustice@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago

Came here to say exactly this.

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[–] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 137 points 1 month ago (2 children)

And I bet he does less work in a day than every single one of the people who were laid off to fund his pay

[–] FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works 53 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Maybe they can come up with some technology that would someday take the position of CEO. Think of the savings...

[–] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Right, but the whole point of a corporation is to benefit insiders at the expense of the owners, employees, suppliers, customers, people that breath air, dolphins, platypi, etc.

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[–] RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 11 points 1 month ago

I'm pretty sure CEOs are supposed to be one of the most AI replaceable jobs.

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[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 94 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Every time a big company lays people off I always try to remember that it's not because they aren't making enough money as a company. It's because the "important" people want more money.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 26 points 1 month ago

He get this pay becuase he laysoff people.

Executive compensation is structured around this.

He wouldnt bother withnthe layoffs if his comp didnt improve...

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell”

[–] knightly@pawb.social 64 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 1 month ago

...because of layoffs

[–] Taiatari@lemmynsfw.com 20 points 1 month ago

Yeah they want to make it clear that they laid off people and he should not get rewarded for it, however I think we all read 'thanks to the layoffs he could increase his pay'

[–] GhostFaceSkrilla@lemmy.world 52 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (4 children)

We can't even get people to go outside and meet live humans for sex anymore, everyone has switched to online apps for dating. People order food and groceries because we learned from Covid we don't need to actually interact with other people.

Does anyone actually expect us to mobilize and topple powerful financial institutions? We have the most comfortable society on Earth in the US. Despite how miserable everyone is, nobody wants to leave their soft chairs and giant computer monitors and immersive video games and discord chat channels where you can mute and block anyone you don't like. The only thing that could possibly change our course at this point would be some transhumanist/singularity nonsense like artificial general intelligence being developed and wrecking the economy.

But that's tech being developed and controlled by the wealthy elite, so my hopes faded long ago.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 8 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Maybe someone can make an app, so I can have someone paid at an insultingly low hourly rate to go protest/riot in my place?

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[–] 800XL@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Everything is going exactly to plan. You're welcome.

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[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Absolutely insane. I literally cannot fathom accepting that much money when there are so many other people who need it more.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 33 points 1 month ago

That's because you're not a piece of shit. Most major companies CEOs are pieces of shit

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[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wow! He must be not just hundreds but many thousands of times more productive than an average employee! Incredible! Well deserved.

[–] radiohead37@lemmynsfw.com 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Wow such work, much deserve

[–] Skates@feddit.nl 33 points 1 month ago

~~despite~~

thanks to

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Remember, he's the real victim here, he had to sign off on all those layoffs, he's going to have to live with that decision...

...in one of his multiple mansions.

He gets paid that much because he's one of the few people on earth who can make those kind of tough choices. The poor guy must be weeping into his caviar.

[–] mayo@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Our CEO announced layoffs recently and then even more recently sent a follow up email complaining about how people were complaining about it and saying how hard it has been for the executive team. We're a small company and I get the pain they are feeling due to financial constraints but at the end of the day we work for money and they are taking home 3-4x as much as anyone else each month while making all the decisions about how money is spent. It's hard not to become resentful.

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

Sorry to hear that, typical hierarchical power structure.

We need more worker protections, and more workplace democracy.

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[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

What a miracle! He must work that much harder than everyone else there! I'll bet A.I. could never do as good a job as he does!

I almost forgot... I heard his marbled meat will taste better than many other breeds of billionaire, especially when slow-smoked over Mesquite. I hope we are able to taste that one day.

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Im a vegetarian but this one would be good for the planet, so…

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[–] GoTeamBoobies@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Glad my layoff could help you out!

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 1 month ago

It’d be cool to never be held accountable for bad business moves, but we also know that layoffs are celebrated by Wall Street for cutting costs.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

more like because of the layoffs

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

On the one hand, Nadella has, in my opinion, saved Microsoft. They were on a downward spiral right before he took over. On the other hand, nothing justifies a $79.1MM salary. That is grotesque.

[–] SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

They still are, they might have started to pull up, by they're still squarely on a collision course with the ground. When this AI bubble pops, thier Boeing provided auto-pilot will crater them into the ground.

Sorry, this metaphor got away from me.

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[–] mindaika@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 month ago

I got a 63 cent raise this year too!

[–] Maeve@midwest.social 10 points 1 month ago

Fire the CEO and hire back the best with pay rises, if they're willing. JC, MS, get a grip on yourselves.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Satya's union of 1 knows how to negotiate apparently.

[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

while trying to buy a license they claimed i needed a subscription to 365 garbage first. hung up and installed linux.

[–] sorval_the_eeter@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I remember whn he first came on the scene, everyone was talking about what a genius Satya was-- for copying AWS's business model. Tnen he stated women should not ask for raises in 2014. This is what you get when you put someone in charge who was raised and educated inside India.

This is not India and we dont want it to become like India.

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[–] DemBoSain@midwest.social 8 points 1 month ago
[–] BOFH666@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Can't he get the extremely terrible way of grabbing focus and changing z-order fixed? That would be great..

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago

Sorry, that would mean prioritizing something that doesn't directly increase executive pay in the short term.

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