• Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    lol no. 50 might just cover ActiBlizz accounts payable department.

    I work for a similar sized company now. We have around 300 just in Finance. Another nearly that many in accounting. When companies get this big they have a lot of spending and assets to track.

    Then you get into Marketing, Sales, HR, etc. I’d confidently bet 90% of the 1900 roles were corporate administration. I’ve personally gone through this process multiple times. I’ve even been part of making consolidation decisions for a few of them.

    Edit: What you experienced will happen. But as phase 2.

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        9 months ago

        What you posted was at Microsoft itself. That story is from January 2023.

        The ActiBlizz deal didn’t close until October 2023.

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          9 months ago

          What you posted was at Microsoft itself. That story is from January 2023.

          The ActiBlizz deal didn’t close until October 2023.

          Agreed, and my Coder/QA/Artist/Designer friends who were laid off aren’t in Finance, HR, etc. They were all seniors in Engineering/QA/Art/Design departments.

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            9 months ago

            Dude you’re so confused right now.

            You’re suggesting layoffs announced today, within ActiBlizz teams, were preemptively carried out by Microsoft a year ago, 10 months before the merger closed and the ActiBlizz team was even part of Microsoft?

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                9 months ago

                Nope. They’re conflating Microsoft layoffs a year ago as being part of a different round announced today. The 10k people let go in January of 2023 are long gone. They can’t fire them again now. Especially so since the 1900 just announced today have only been Microsoft employees since October.