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At least they get some severance.

]]>https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/26557734https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/26557734Wed, 28 Oct 2026 06:15:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Microsoft offers “voluntary” layoffs to 60,000 as bosses make workers pay for AI gamble - Liberation News on Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:37:15 GMT]]>Hmm gamble, take the severance, get rehired when it all burns.

Meanwhile, see if you can use (local) AI to not need them.

Also my hot take is, they were downsizing and AI lets them to fire people while coming off as a growing company.

]]>https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.ml/comment/28574557https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.ml/comment/28574557Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:37:15 GMT