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Although the figures registered in 2022, 2023 or 2024, years in which each round of layoffs are not being reached segated thousands of jobs. According to The portal Layoff.fyi,The great technology have fired 23,505 employees in what we have been. The most recurring reason: the Restructuring of the departments To gain agility.
According to Published information by Business InsiderMicrosoft would be considering a New round of layoffs They aim to reduce the number of intermediate and management positions, as well as Posts “No coding“. That is, positions not directly involved with software development.
Programmers are not the objective
Anonymous sources close to Microsoft assured the American media that the technology prepares Another round of layoffs that could be executed next May, but do not provide a specific figure of the number of employees that will be affected by the measure. The spokesmen of the company consulted by the medium have declined to comment.
According to what is published, the adjustments that are coming will be focused on the intermediate controls and team managers, as well as in DEVELOPED DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENTS Software direct. This includes commercial, human resources and managers departments.
Microsoft already carried out layoffs at the beginning of the year. But unlike that, the new round would not have the objective Like Google and Amazon.
Less bureaucracy and more agile teams
Charlie Bell, co -founder of Amazon Web Service and current Chief of Security of Microsoft, could have brought from Amazon this ratios system. Its objective is to redirect the maximum of Personnel resources to the development area To step on the accelerator in matters such as AI or the creation of new software solutions to put back to Microsoft in the AI race.
Applying this strategy, Microsoft would be looking for an infrastructure with development equipment with less bureaucratic obstacles in the command chain and more dynamic reducing the number of department managers. Hence, the main objective is not to reduce the template in general, but in specific positions.
According to sources of Business Insiderthe department managed by Charlie Bell has a ratio of 5.5 programmers for each manager, when the objective is to achieve a proportion of 10 to 1.
This strategy is slightly different from that adopted by technological ones as a goal, which in its last round of layoffs hardened the performance scales, which served as an excuse for dismiss 5% of your workforceincluding in that list many software engineers that had to date had good grades.
However, although programmers are not the objective priority in this personnel cut, Microsoft could take the opportunity to say goodbye to some employees (including programmers) that have a “impact 80” or lower performance rating for two consecutive years.
The company establishes a 200 scale, in which 100 would be an average yield. Therefore, a programmer with a qualification of 80 would be yielding below the measure and could be one of the names that go in The next list of layoffs, Although your profile is development.
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