misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoAnother new year, another round of job cuts at Microsoftwww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up1186arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up1182arrow-down1external-linkAnother new year, another round of job cuts at Microsoftwww.theregister.commisk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square12fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaredual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up40·1 day agoThis sounds like the Circuit City paradigm, which is to fire all your expensive experienced workers and try to fill their roles with fresh-faced grads or, more likely, H1B people from India at the absolute minimum pay scale. And we saw how that worked for Circuit City.
minus-squarefloofloof@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down1·23 hours agoI wonder if that’s why Microsoft’s recent products are, you know, the way they are.
minus-squareKairos@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·14 hours agoTo be fair Microsoft sells flushed out products and their only innovation is worthless, so they don’t really need talkent.
This sounds like the Circuit City paradigm, which is to fire all your expensive experienced workers and try to fill their roles with fresh-faced grads or, more likely, H1B people from India at the absolute minimum pay scale.
And we saw how that worked for Circuit City.
I wonder if that’s why Microsoft’s recent products are, you know, the way they are.
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To be fair Microsoft sells flushed out products and their only innovation is worthless, so they don’t really need talkent.