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Microsoft To Lay Off 10K Employees Exactly One Year Since Activision Blizzard Purchase Announced | M
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Microsoft To Lay Off 10K Employees Exactly One Year Since Activision Blizzard Purchase Announced | MMORPG.com
Microsoft announced today that it would be cutting up to 10,000 jobs at the tech giant across its workforce, with reports stating that the gaming divisions at both Xbox and Bethesda are affected by the layoffs. This was announced exactly one year to the day that Microsoft told the world they planned on acquiring Activision Blizzard for billions.
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"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
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Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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Such an inspiring image!
The lay-off protection a union provides depends on what it manages to negotiate.
If I recall correctly in the event my brother was laid off he would receive 80% of his pay for the duration. I don't remember if he also retained access to his other benefits, but I think it quite likely. His union was quite strong for a good while, though was fading in the later years of his employment. But by then he wasn't in a position he could be laid off any time soon. His seniority was such he would have been one of the last unionized workers standing.
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
And it IS a quarterly nonsense. Nadella even admits brazenly to be as such. It's our goal to align the costs with revenues ... ? Why do you think that could be?
Imo, when CEOs(or other rich scumbags) fail, they should BE ACCOUNTABLE for their fail. No, not just the bonus, enough of such blunders and a REAL FIRING should be possible(none of that corp trading nonsense). You fail, you feel the consequences. Just like everyone else.
Why should the rich have a special treatment?
Funny thing is they are not linking these lay offs to any of their many trade union articles, but apparently it has got something to do with Blizzard...how strange.
To be fair to Joseph he doesn't do the articles that have the union stuff and I don't think there is a direct coloration, just that it did not help.
Once again as I am veering into politics this is my last post in this thread on that topic.
I was surprised by people drawing this connection, too. I have no insights, so it could be true, but my first thought was that a huge chunk probably came from the HoloLense team or something
I'm not an IT Specialist, Game Developer, or Clairvoyant in real life, but like others on here, I play one on the internet.
I'm pretty sure Bethesda has never had internal QA, they use free testers who want to play Alpha access...
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Protects workers from dubious claims made by interns..
https://gizmodo.com/the-12-biggest-tech-layoffs-of-the-year-so-far-1849372352/slides/30
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
To the unemployed and those near them each individual job lost will be of extreme significance for some time.
For those neither analyzing the impact on the company of the changes or personally affected by them it will mainly be a matter of brief concern expressed in passing before moving on to what is actually cared about.
The first group have practical concerns, the second personal and practical, and the last shallow to feigned. The concerns of the first two are completely relevant, with those of third barely so at best.