Microsoft offers 60,000 employees a voluntary exit 😱 The AI affecting is real in IT sector. This is company’s efforts to cut costs amid AI adoption, per Bloomberg. Personnel on select teams in the US, Canada, India, and the UK at a vice president level and below will be eligible. This reflects ~27% of Microsoft's total workforce https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/10/26/introducing-a-voluntary-exit-offer/
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@nixCraft Europe, Canada and UK turning away from Microsoft and other US companies, might also be a reason for personnel cuttings
Fund a fascist & find out.
Microsoft sided with the fossil fuel funded fascists.
https://news.microsoft.com/source/emea/2026/08/microsoft-announces-saudi-arabia-east-datacenter-region-will-be-available-in-november-2026/
https://datacentremagazine.com/news/when-will-microsoft-saudi-data-centre-region-go-live
https://www.justiceinfo.net/en/156691-how-sanctions-can-weaponize-us-tech-against-the-icc.html
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/feb/18/international-criminal-court-icc-judges-trump-sanctions
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/technology/us-tech-europe-microsoft-trump-icc.html
@nixCraft 💥The Capitalust End Game 💥 is here! “Embrace the rapture or fight? Is the question. 🤔
@nixCraft don't forget that companies use AI as an excuse for a layoff because it automatically creates a boost in stock prices for the company, instead of the previously normal outcome of stock prices going down. So they "have" to say it
@nixCraft they will rehire them bit at a lower salary obviously. This is the ai game.
@nixCraft no company should be so big that it has 60,000 "extra" employees. Those people could have been in HUNDREDS of small companies that valued them.
@nixCraft "but everyone will have more leisure"
@nixCraft I'm really sorry. This is all my fault. I recently turned my laptop to Linux after decades of Microsoft OS.
@nixCraft big tech mostly consista of smoke and mirrors at this point. No wise person or business should rely on their services.
This is such a brutal thing. Yes job loss is not nice even if they get some money to exit. The whole IT sector is now a race to the bottom until AI causes a massive job and stock market crash and then nobody will have a job, pensions will be burned out in stock market scams and meanwhile, some of these AI tech bros will have made billions in profits. Well done, Microsoft and every other batshit crazy AI company.
@nixCraft All those tech bros are going to need those fortresses they are building.
@nixCraft Oh I hope they feel their reckoning so much it hurts their fucking bones.
Fuck microslop.