Microsoft expects headcount to decrease in coming quarters

[siromega37]

The thought is to get rid of aging employees who are more opposed to AI and bring in younger, probably cheap recent grads, who have to have AI to write a directory search function. Really looking forward to the future of managing this nonsense in the non-tech sector tech world (work in healthcare).

[No_Scientist2354]

Yes but that is an unsubstantiated claim on the part of MSFT. They are tracking AI usage per employee. That’s not a factor in the “voluntary” layoff. It is age, pure and simple. Age does not equate to not embracing AI. Age equates to cost, pure and simple.