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Microsoft Cuts Jobs, Ends Benefits Amid Performance Reviews
1/31/2025
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Story summary
- Microsoft has begun performance-based layoffs, immediately terminating healthcare benefits for impacted employees.
- Several former employees claim they have not received severance pay.
- Termination letters indicate job loss due to unmet performance standards.
- The company is assessing employee performance in departments like Security and Gaming.
- Microsoft aims to retain high-performing talent and may refill positions post-layoffs.
