“The minimum wage is now coming for white-collar work”
‘In Britain, the fast-rising minimum wage is catching up with the bottom rungs of white-collar work. Indeed, it appears that a growing number of #workers outside the traditional #LowPaid sectors are not even getting the legal minimum rate of# pay’
#MinimumWage / #WhiteCollar <https://archive.md/fwTrL> / <https://www.ft.com/content/5f6972fb-0a71-4a63-b1fd-030ceafd0112> (paywall)
“Microsoft will cut 3 per cent of its global #workforce, the latest round of #JobCuts at a #BigTech company, as it seeks to streamline operations and pare layers of #MiddleManagement.
The Redmond, Washington-based group said on Tuesday that it would eliminate about 6,000 roles, including at international offices and wholly-owned subsidiaries such as #LinkedIn. The moves follow #performance-related job cuts this year that affected about 2,000 #Microsoft employees.”
#WhiteCollar / #sackings <https://archive.md/Siork> / <https://www.ft.com/content/f453e330-1e56-4b45-9889-382098025415> (paywall)
“Microsoft laid off the senior engineers of .NET on Android and key figures of Maui.
This might just be the US wave, so perhaps the whole thing is doomed” — Miguel de Icaza
#Microsoft / #WhiteCollar / #Engineers / #tech / #MigueldeIcaza / #DotNet <https://x.com/migueldeicaza/status/1922409129567563855>
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