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Microsoft mandates a return to office, 3 days per week

blogs.microsoft.com Flexible work update - The Official Microsoft Blog

Amy Coleman, Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer, shared the below communication with Microsoft employees this morning. How we work has forever changed. I remember starting at Microsoft in the late ‘90s, always in the office, no laptops, and primarily working with the people right down...

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Companies keep doing this to shed workers and don't seem to realise the "rockstar" workers you want to keep are the ones who walk because they have options
All you're doing is retaining the trapped and shit skilled
- It's an epidemic of "how do we cut staff by 15-20% without paying millions in severance" with no regard to what it means for the company beyond the next four fiscal quarters.
  
  you wanna stop that shit, you cut CEO bonuses.
  
  “Sure I can come in, I’ll just be constantly late”
  They’re gunna pay that fuckin’ severence.
  
  Ah yes. The Intel Strategy.
- This is pure cope. They can afford to lose talent.
  
  I doubt microsoft has any talent left. If anything, whatever talent they may have, it cannot and will not be able to change things for the better. Their products are absolutely shit.
  
  Microsoft is going the way of Boeing; trade in the actual people who know how to build a good product (the engineers/seasoned developers) and replace them with management fuckwits.
  Case in point the recent update to Windows 11, which outright bricked a whole bunch of PC’s - again.
  And just look how they’re handling the forced move to Windows 11. Well, fuck’em. I’m going to Linux. Windows is dead.
  
  replace them with management fuckwits.
  That happened over 10 years ago with the release of Win 8.
  
  Talent at Microsoft? The only thing they've done the past decade is make their product worse.
  
  Oh I'm sure there's some super talented people there. They're just not working very hard to get their stuff done because it's easy.
  Now we're testing if they're willing to do the same but also sit in an office probably an hour away, for fun.
  It's just a layoff workout laying people off, except you keep your worst workers for sure
  
  The guy who caught the xz backdoor was a Microsoft engineer who noticed SSH logins taking half a second longer and just had to find out what was going on.
  They’ve got proper engineers, they’re just assigned shit projects and tasks. I reckon they’re now being told to shoehorn AI in whereever possible.
  
  Those are typically the people that get let go because management thinks they're overpaid and wasting time on trivial things like finding out why something is taking a half second longer than normal.
  
  A good line manager will fight tooth and nail to keep those people when upper management demands layoffs. But not every line manager is a good manager. Few are.
  
  I just went through this at my work and upper management didn't consult anyone before picking and choosing who got let go. They of course used their own out-of‐touch metrics which heavily favored toward laying off the people who'd been there the longest since, in their eyes, Employee A & B in job role X are completely equivalent in knowledge and experience even though one has only done it one year while the other has done it for 30 years. "Why are we paying this guy so much more?" says their spreadsheet.

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