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Microsoft lays off employees in security, experiences and devices, sales, and gaming — separate from performance cuts
(www.businessinsider.com)
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Making room for the new tranche of H1B coming in I guess.
Nah, executive bonuses and whaleholder dividends needed to be higher.
H1Bs are payed 40-60 cents on the dollar while you can work them harder and they can't whine or get sent home... So..it does help the bottom line.
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-leak-exposes-how-management-identifies-critical-ai-talent
Blame AI.
They also laid off folks with H1Bs. No, I suspect the real story here is that someone somewhere got convinced these jobs could be done even cheaper by AI, so they're cutting folks to fund the datacenters basically.
I live near a big MS office. It's definitely the H1Bs. The entire city is Indian now.