inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoMicrosoft lays off employees in security, experiences and devices, sales, and gaming — separate from performance cutswww.businessinsider.comexternal-linkmessage-square13linkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down10
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minus-squareRubberDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 months agoMaking room for the new tranche of H1B coming in I guess.
minus-squareinclementimmigrant@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 months agoNah, executive bonuses and whaleholder dividends needed to be higher.
minus-squareRubberDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoH1Bs 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.
minus-squareZC3rr0r@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 months agoThey 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.
minus-squareeinlander@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agohttps://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-leak-exposes-how-management-identifies-critical-ai-talent Blame AI.
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.
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.
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-leak-exposes-how-management-identifies-critical-ai-talent
Blame AI.