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Microsoft’s Redmond campus was quiet. The irony hanging in the air was palpable. The tech giant had a couple of big things happen overnight.
The first was its next foray into the AI space with a new product called Security Copilot. The second was the reduction of 559 workers from its Seattle-based campuses.
I just happened to be in Seattle when the news broke. So I headed over to the campus.
Another day, another round of gut-wrenching layoffs
A basketball court at the Microsoft campus. Image: Tegan Jones
Layoffs have become par for the course in the big tech space. In 2023 alone there have been large workforce cuts at Amazon, PayPal, Alphabet, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo.
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