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Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce (www.cnbc.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (13 children)

Absolutely no sympathy from me.

They like the abuse and attack anyone who doesn't.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (22 children)

One objective is to reduce layers of management, the spokesperson said. In January Amazon announced that it was getting rid of some employees after noticing “unnecessary layers” in its organization.

Sucks for those that lost their jobs, but this sounds promising. Layer after layer of management slows everything down. It turns a 1 hour task into a 3 month crawl of endless meetings and back and forth and waiting.

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