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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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[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 3 points 58 minutes ago

more like because of the layoffs

[-] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 hours ago

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.

[-] Maeve@midwest.social 10 points 3 hours ago

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

[-] DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago

Yeah but I bet he met a KPI

[-] GhostFaceSkrilla@lemmy.world 36 points 7 hours ago
[-] ameancow@lemmy.world 8 points 6 hours ago

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.

[-] 800XL@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

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

[-] r00ty@kbin.life 3 points 3 hours ago

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?

[-] Allero@lemmy.today 1 points 3 hours ago

Now that's creative :D But you gotta make sure one buyer = one rioter

[-] r00ty@kbin.life 1 points 3 hours ago

2.49 extra for assured personal rioter. Otherwise you'll get the standard service where your rioter may have another riot to attend to first.

[-] Skates@feddit.nl 29 points 7 hours ago

~~despite~~

thanks to

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 108 points 9 hours ago

Because of the devastating year for layoffs.

The purpose of a system is what it does.

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[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 25 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

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 8 points 7 hours ago

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

[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago

Hello fellow vegetarian! I made the comment while holding my nose. It would definitely be my one meat exception.

[-] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 113 points 11 hours ago

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

[-] where_am_i@sh.itjust.works -2 points 2 hours ago

Lemmy, stop upvoting this BS, you jealous basement dwellers.

Say all you want about unfair pay, but those CEOs work absolutely mad hours and the most insane schedules you can possibly imagine.

[-] FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works 46 points 11 hours ago

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

[-] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 18 points 10 hours ago

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.

[-] rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago

It's to benefit the owners

[-] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 5 points 4 hours ago

Nah, maybe in terms of stock price temporarily. But these layoffs are all anti value by destroying institutional knowledge, employee loyalty, etc. C suite fucks don’t know anything about their businesses and these sorts of moves always fuck owners in the end. Look at boing, GE, etc. When these Jack Welch types get into management they always fuck over the long term owners and get very rich doing it.

Then again, Im a weirdo that believes in equities having long term intrinsic value so don’t listen to me.

[-] RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 9 hours ago

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

[-] TommySoda@lemmy.world 80 points 11 hours ago

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.

[-] slaacaa@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

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

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 22 points 11 hours 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...

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 10 points 8 hours ago

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

[-] knightly@pawb.social 57 points 11 hours ago
[-] Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 10 hours ago

...because of layoffs

[-] Taiatari@lemmynsfw.com 19 points 11 hours 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'

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 33 points 11 hours ago

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

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[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 34 points 11 hours ago

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

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 26 points 10 hours ago

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

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[-] can@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 hours ago

Each day I become closer moving my setup away from windows entirely. I installed Ubuntu alongside windows but now I'm thinking I want a different distro and need to repartition I guess.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 11 hours 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.

[-] dis_honestfamiliar@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Interesting... So according to this ign most of that was awarded in stock. It kind of solidifies the comments about making money for the share holders by cutting costs. Was gonna say would be nice for us peasants to be awarded in stock but then I would feel like crap if I'd get ton of money while others lost their job.

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