And will the executive team at Microsoft also be taking any compensation cut or freeze?

Or will their mostly-stock-based income go up as a result of saving so much money and increasing the stock price?

> I’ve been at the company a long time and never felt like such an expendable cog as I’ve felt the last year.

I bet MSFT employees think unionizing is for "poor performers". But on a long enough timeline everyone is a cog.

Nice morale booster after the layoffs from the world's 2nd largest company in terms of market cap. Are any other big tech companies doing this?

all the eng budget is spent on compute cost for ai?

this is a great way to allow inflation to implement pretty significant pay cuts

Another round of layoffs without actually having to do it. Those who have the ability to find jobs, even in this environment, will leave. Since Microsoft has decided that that risk is totally acceptable to them, the attrition is actually the bonus for the firm.

> We will continue to emphasize and recognize exceptional performance with high rewards, and to do so, managers will need to differentiate pay for performance within their allocated budgets

so, stack ranking is now openly recommended?

Duplicate of front page post.