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$80K per employee?? That seems a little steep to me. I have received some severance packages during my career, but they were never that sweet.

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It includes 2+ months of salary for each employee, six months of stock awards, six months of healthcare and probably tax etc.

If that’s commensurate with their overall compensation, I can see why MS needed to trim their workforce.

What's "scary" is if you look at their headcount on a graph, they are still very high compared to their historical headcounts.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MSFT/microsoft/num...

Doesn't this make one wonder "are more layoffs coming"/needed?

We were all criticizing their board in the comments for laying off 10k or whatever it was. Maybe we should be thanking them that it wasn't more? Not saying I think this, just... not an "unfathomable" argument.

I had no idea they had gotten so big. Roughly 200k employees puts them on par with the size of Bank of America.

Given the still strong performance this might be it. The cuts were across teams, but some teams, such as HoloLens and 343i seemed to be hit harder. They also need to clear way for bringing on board over 10k new employees from Activision.

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