Microsoft Announces Major Downsizing - 60,000 Affected

[Meengla]

well just take as example last iran war, months without internet, it was not the walking dead but things like project nomad is useful then.

it's to expect more internet disruption lasting months in future regional wars.

here in Spain we had a whole country power outage one day in april 2025, internet stopped to work after one hour without power grid, never happened before, but in developing countries it happens often. In Cuba there is one full island power outage every 3 months in average.

btw one key technology of project nomad is lora (LOng RAnge) to send data over few miles with minimal power consumption, few bandwidth, just for text messages size, as it's used in meshtastic project. In Spain interest in Meshtastic grew after april 2025 power outage.

You are talking about short term affects. Give the richer countries just a a year and there would be riots and anarchy. We are--including me--spoilt brats!
BTW, I don't believe in the stupid 'depopulating the world' theory 'by the elites'. Big, rich countries are not that smart or dumb--depending on your perspective. Countries are like 'Day Traders': Make quick profits while they can. Countries/Nations are reflective of their people. There is no grand design. There is decreasingly long term thinking. Speaking of which, just 10-15 years ago, America was given the credit for long term policies. I doubt that very much looking at Biden and Trump tenures, if not before. But that would be going into totally offtopic, which the Mods wont like.

 

[ustaad]

Oh for sure, 60,000 will be going. Just many doing the mental calculations of trying to hold out for a few months til the axe swings or taking the voluntary offer, while all at the same time brushing off their CV.
Irony is the best (especially in sales and engineering) will take the offer and find a job easily elsewhere, so you could be left with the mediocre, who will now be even more demotivated.

So is it a blind offer to everyone? I can see how it can totally backfire for the company as the most skilled will be the first ones to take the offer leaving behind even less productive/$ workforce than before.

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

So is it a blind offer to everyone? I can see how it can totally backfire for the company as the most skilled will be the first ones to take the offer leaving behind even less productive/$ workforce than before.

Not likely.

Senior management already knows which divisions / departments / employees are targeted. Those individuals have likely been notified.

 

[Yasser76]

So is it a blind offer to everyone? I can see how it can totally backfire for the company as the most skilled will be the first ones to take the offer leaving behind even less productive/$ workforce than before.

No, selected people

 

[PakFactor]

So is it a blind offer to everyone? I can see how it can totally backfire for the company as the most skilled will be the first ones to take the offer leaving behind even less productive/$ workforce than before.

They're not blind; they know which areas to target. Often in these situations, the marketing department will be axed, then sales, then individual projects will be targeted. It's often a bottom-up approach.