inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 days agoMicrosoft lays off employees in security, experiences and devices, sales, and gaming — separate from performance cutswww.businessinsider.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up166arrow-down11
arrow-up165arrow-down1external-linkMicrosoft lays off employees in security, experiences and devices, sales, and gaming — separate from performance cutswww.businessinsider.cominclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 days agomessage-square15fedilink
minus-squareRubberDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·19 days agoMaking room for the new tranche of H1B coming in I guess.
minus-squareinclementimmigrant@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·19 days agoNah, executive bonuses and whaleholder dividends needed to be higher.
minus-squareRubberDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·19 days 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-up3·17 days 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-up1·17 days agoI live near a big MS office. It’s definitely the H1Bs. The entire city is Indian now.
minus-squareeinlander@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·19 days 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.
I live near a big MS office. It’s definitely the H1Bs. The entire city is Indian now.
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-leak-exposes-how-management-identifies-critical-ai-talent
Blame AI.