inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoMicrosoft lays off employees in security, experiences and devices, sales, and gaming — separate from performance cutswww.businessinsider.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up1202arrow-down14
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minus-squareRubberDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up61arrow-down1·4 months agoMaking room for the new tranche of H1B coming in I guess.
minus-squareinclementimmigrant@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35arrow-down1·4 months agoNah, executive bonuses and whaleholder dividends needed to be higher.
minus-squareRubberDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·4 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-squareeinlander@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down2·4 months agohttps://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-leak-exposes-how-management-identifies-critical-ai-talent Blame AI.
minus-squareZC3rr0r@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 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-squareFenrirIII@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoI live near a big MS office. It’s definitely the H1Bs. The entire city is Indian now.
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.