>July 2022 - ~1000 layoffs
>January 2023 - ~900 layoffs
>May 2023 - ~700 layoffs
>July 2023 - ~300 layoffs
>January 2024 - ~2000 layoffs
>May 2024 - ~4000 layoffs
>September 2024 - ~700 layoffs
>January 2025 - ~2000 layoffs
>May 2025 - ~6000 layoffs
>June 2025 - ~300 layoffs
>July 2025 - ~9000 layoffs

What's going on???

its mostly xbox and microsoft office cuts

how can they bloody

>>105777846 (OP)
cutting the fat
the numbers alone should tell you whats going on
thats a total of 26k people
how the absolute fuck you end up with 26k people working for you?... if it isnt bloat
which gets systematically eliminated since 2022

>>105777846 (OP)
King, the Activision mobile gaming division, currently supports 15 mobile games of which 5 are in the Candy Crush franchise.
They employed 2000 people, and of those 200 were let go today as part of this layoff.
That was over a 130 people per mobile game, now shrunk down to a measly 120 per game. For free-to-play mobile games that look like this.

They of course will stop importing H1B labor, right?

>>105777978
lol lmao
>HRoastiepocalypse
HRocracy is not a sustainable business model

>>105778002
No actually, they're doubling it

>>105777891
>how the absolute fuck you end up with 26k people working for you?... if it isnt bloat
Pretend work is such a huge industry
Everything is fake and gay propped up by stock price.

It's why every single office worker raged at liberation day with stocks tanking.
They know up and down the shit is all fake

>>105777846 (OP)
>What's going on???
market is healing.
most of these people are worthless, even the non-worthless ones can be replaced anyways.
>>105777978
>now shrunk down to a measly 120 per game
they can cut more
there is a no fucking way a mobile slop like these games can't be a 5-man project

>>105777846 (OP)
it's gAI goy.

Miss me yet?

>>105778063
if my money was involved with that id be pissed

>>105777891
>how the absolute fuck you end up with 26k people working for you?... if it isnt bloat
Are you fucking stupid?

>>105778002
1 Indian can do the work of 2 wh*tes and will cost 10% of them individually, so basically 5% of the total.

There are over 100,000 wh*tes to be replaced at Microsoft, for basically 20 times the cost savings and performance efficiency.

>>105778063
>Pretend work is such a huge industry
So is having such a massive company it has employees all over the world. How did you manage to end up like this? Homeschooling?

>>105778104
Poos also don't do walk outs and other protests at work. Microsoft had a bunch of that throughout the woke era.

>>105777846 (OP)
remember, they are laying off, for they can replace and hire more h1b

>>105778173
and so far, 4,000 h1b's have been approved

>>105778173
>replace bloat with even lower quality bloat
why not just manage teams more rationally?
>h1b
theyre still gonna get paid to western standards
who cares you can pay em 20% less if you get 50% out of them?
this if fucking retarded
big corpo is retarded.

>>105777893
If you've used ChatGPT at all you would know it's terrible at one-shot solutions.

>>105778117
Bruh, I'm at Google
It's fucking laughable how little we do
Can't say I'm complaining but do you really need 4 full time leads to manage 12-16 contractors

Mind you employees have enough time where they literally bring their hobbies to work, while contractors under us have much higher expectations

Are you seriously going to tell me that absolutely everyone is necessary, because this is just the low level and I'm already astonished.

>>105778216
they get paid "western standards" by being below average of western standards. anything is higher than pajeet land standards. its not "20%" less, its more around 30 - 50% less and less benefits.

>>105778225
>terrible at one-shot solutions
So are you

>>105778235
this is still retarded
the best solution is to leverage the company name to create elite teams where you pay 2-3x more per head but collectively the team brings you 10x in return

>>105778216
>why not just manage teams more rationally?
That's long term strategy, but the goal here is to increase the dividends of the shareholders for the next business quarter

>>105778173
They are instant requesting H1B with identical qualification as the people they laid off lol.

>>105778242
Actually no, I tend to do my job correctly the first time.

>>105778249
yeah i forgot about that
i should have thought about fiduciary obligations first, its the root of all enshittification

>>105778253
>>105778173
Integreon Managed Solutions Pvt Ltd. is the H1B firm Microdick is using apparently.

>>105778275
>Integreon Managed Solutions Pvt Ltd

>>105778275
lel and shills trying to spin it as an ai replacement
this is becoming predictable at this point

lmao @ American devs

>>105778281
fukken lmao
m$ft is pajeet tier
>hr company that provides programmers cant be arsed to get their website to work

>>105778173
>>105778195
MIGA
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>>105778322
India will rule the world. India #1

>>105778281
Can't wait to see what Windows 12 will be like with all this jeetery. That's if they actually make a Windows 12 and don't just keep piling stuff onto 11 forever.

Not sure why people are surprised considering the CEO is king jeet himself

>>105778275
Microsoft might be located in the USA but they are an India company at this point. They might as well move their headquarters to India.

>>105777846 (OP)
>Also in the news: Microsoft hires 9000 in India

>>105777893
Maybe. If your job is writing emails, sure. For a variety of tech jobs, AI can really enhance your role. Just goes back to "if you can be replaced by AI, then your job wasn't a real one".
I think this is to replace expensive workers with cheapo indians

>>105778233
> I've never seen more than 20 people in my trailer park, there ain't no way there being 20k ppl at some company I reckon
lol

>>105778275
This problem literally goes away if the requirement for H1Bs is 200% the market median for that position in that area. Then they can actually use H1B for what it really is for: hiring rockstars in other countries. Not importing slave labor.

>>105778216
Welcome to Globalism + capitalism + fiat currency. Things will only get worse for the 99%.

>>105778386
Yeah but they want the slave labor. So that's what they'll get. American people have zero control over these policies. They are decided behind closed doors, not at the ballot box.

>>105778386
It doesn't help because the jeets that claw their way to the top (Pichai, Satya) will immediately send all jobs to India. Ban fucking India from H1B. Make them have their own visa with a hard cap. The instant you ban H1B for India, H1Bs actually become UNDER subscribed. Old hands will know ~2012 was when H1Bs started to get rejected because indians kept banging down the door to get into the USA

>>105777846 (OP)
Lol. The recent layoffs are AI induced. Plus Microsoft is bloated.
Last year or the year before they fucked up the FTP protocol somehow and slowed simple index searching down a shit load for on site server communication. Took them several months to fix it. Ridiculous

>>105778376
It's not 26k at a company, its 26k total that was cut
These people where hired for something, then fired in waves.
Real important work these people where doing right?