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Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees (www.theverge.com)
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[–] -4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

This is phase 2. Phase one was last year when they laid of 10,000. those were the finance/accounting/etc people. This is specifically the games area which at this point, according to my friends caught in said layoff, says it's mostly seniors across all (gaming) divisions.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [+] -6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [+] -8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Not if you read carefully. Slow down. Pay attention.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years 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.

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