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Microsoft cuts jobs while avoiding the word layoff

Original: microsoft layoffs

Microsoft is cutting a significant number of workers, but the company is framing the reductions in ways that avoid calling them layoffs, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The story examines how the company describes the workforce shedding through restructuring and performance-based language rather than mass redundancy announcements, drawing attention to its terminology as much as the job cuts themselves.

Why now: The unusual framing of large-scale job cuts without calling them layoffs is prompting discussion during a wave of tech industry layoffs.

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• Microsoft Is Trying to Shed a Lot of Workers. Just Don’t Call It a Layoff. · WSJ

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