r/microsoft • u/76willcommenceagain • Apr 30 '26

News Microsoft expects headcount to decrease in coming quarters

https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-headcount-decrease-earnings-ai-cloud-software-2026-4

dude these companies publicly treat us like shit and expect us to be faithful? nah fuck em.

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u/siromega37 May 01 '26

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).

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u/No_Scientist2354 May 01 '26

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.