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Updated on: Mar 2023

Industry

Campus hiring for IT and Tech slows down amid layoffs

Mar 27, 2023

Bill Gates published a -page letter with his Predictions on AI

Bill Gates has recently published a -page letter on AI and he has also summarized his predictions o...

Technology

Mar 23, 2023

Bill Gates published a -page letter with his Predictions on AI

Microsoft is bringing AI to Office, launched Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft is bringing the power of next-generation AI to work. The introduction of Microsoft Cop...

Technology

Mar 18, 2023

Microsoft is bringing AI to Office, launched Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft India laid off employee says challenging time for family

Recently, according to several reports Tech giant, Microsoft has announced a third round of layoffs....

Layoffs

Mar 14, 2023

Microsoft India laid off employee says challenging time for family

Layoffs

Microsoft 3rd layoff round hits employees 10,000 jobs affected

According to several reposts, an American multinational technology corporation, Microsoft has conducted a third round of layoffs. The roles that have been impacted include the areas of the supply chain, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the Internet of Things (IoT). The reports suggest that the company has shut down its AI-powered automation effort Project Bonsai and […]

Mar 13, 2023

Industry

Bill Gates meets Ratan Tata & Sachin Tendulkar, and shared ideas

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has met Tata group’s Ratan Tata, N. Chandrasekaran, and former cricketer Sachin Tendulkar. Gates Foundation India shared a Tweet saying, “Our co-chair & founder, @BillGates had an enriching discussion with @RNTata2000 & N. Chandrasekaran, about their philanthropic initiatives.” “We look forward to strengthening our work together & partnering for health, diagnostics, and […]

Mar 1, 2023

Industry

Microsoft Indian employee shares heartbreaking story of layoff

A former Indian Microsoft employee Alisha Acharya has shared a heartbreaking story of layoff. She was working as a technical program manager with the organization for over five years. Alisha Acharya shared a LinkedIn post saying, “Heartbroken. I was impacted by the recent round of layoffs at Microsoft. It took me a few days to […]

Mar 1, 2023

C-Suite Move

YouTube appoints Indian-American Neal Mohan as new CEO

A global online video-sharing and social media platform, YouTube has announced the appointment of Indian-American Neal Mohan as CEO. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of YouTube Susan Wojcicki has resigned from her role, Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc informed. She wants to spend more time with her family, health, and personal projects. “Today, after nearly 25 […]

Feb 17, 2023

Industry

Shell, Microsoft join hands to offer digital skills to non-IT students

In line with their joint commitment to empowering the workforce of tomorrow with future-ready skills, Shell and Microsoft announced a collaboration to impart digital skills to students in vocational education institutes. The project aims to enable 5,000 underserved youth across 24 government institutes with digital productivity and employability skills, and prepare them for digital careers […]

Feb 16, 2023

Industry

IBM sues former executive for accepting role at rival company

An American multinational technology corporation, IBM has sued a former top Thai executive for accepting a role at a rival company. As per the company’s claims, The company has paid the employees bonuses totaling more than $470,000 in exchange for protecting confidential information and not engaging in “anti-competitive conduct within a specified period”. The company had asked […]

Feb 14, 2023

Industry

IIT graduate laid off by Microsoft gets overwhelming support from Twitter

In January 2023 Microsoft announced to sack 11,000 employees worldwide due to the global economic slowdown. An IIT graduate took to Twitter to share his post about being laid off by Microsoft. Koustuv Saha shared a tweet, “I am laid off from @MSFTResearch MTL. It hasn’t quite sunk in, but it has hit my confidence to lose […]

Feb 13, 2023

Industry

Fiancé got sacked by Microsoft: Woman asks “Marry him or not”?

The major companies laid off employees including Infosys, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Byju’s, Wipro, and Salesforce laid off a maximum number of workers globally. According to trueup.io, so far in 2023, Stay up-to-date on the latest layoffs across big tech, tech unicorns, and startups. So far in 2023, there have been 379 layoffs at tech companies with 113,082 people impacted (3,056 people per day). In 2022, […]

Feb 8, 2023

Industry

Microsoft Outlook, Teams, and others faced outrage in India

Yesterday, January 25, 2023, several Microsoft services including MS Teams, Outlook, Microsoft 365, and Azure were down for thousands of users in India and users were unable to access Microsoft’s multiple services. According to the outage tracking website Downdetector.com, about 63% of users reported that they were facing issues with the Teams app, 26% reported issues […]

Jan 26, 2023

Industry

Ex-Microsoft HR lists 3 types of employees at most risk of layoffs

Recently, Chris Williams, Ex-Microsoft Vice President- Human Resources has come forward to share three categories of employees that are unsafe during layoffs and two categories of employees who are at least at risk during layoffs. Below are the categories of employees who are at least risk:- Profit-making employees: “If you’re an essential part of building the most […]

Jan 24, 2023

Layoffs

Microsoft to sack 11,000 employees worldwide

An American multinational technology company, Microsoft will sack 11,000 employees worldwide due to the global economic slowdown. The year 2023 has begun on a bad note for tech workers globally. There have been nearly 91 companies that have laid off more than 24,000 tech employees in the first 15 days this month. More than 1,600 […]

Jan 18, 2023

Work Model

Microsoft to give employees unlimited vacation days

An American multinational technology corporation, Microsoft has announced to give employees unlimited vacation days in the US. Employees living outside the US are not included in the policy due to different laws in all countries. The salaried employees in the US will not have a fixed number of vacation days and can take unlimited leaves […]

Jan 12, 2023