Some Microsoft employees fume over the company’s open offer to hire hundreds of OpenAI staff::Current employees point to layoffs and a salary freeze this year at Microsoft and wonder why it’s promising to match the pay of OpenAI staff.
Some Microsoft employees fume over the company’s open offer to hire hundreds of OpenAI staff::Current employees point to layoffs and a salary freeze this year at Microsoft and wonder why it’s promising to match the pay of OpenAI staff.
I get why they’d be pissed. If they cut staff in their old AI team for ‘strategic reasons’ or whatever they told employees, they should stick to that reasoning and say it doesn’t make sense to bring on a different AI team. Otherwise it does send the wrong message to existing employees that they will just be replaced by an acquisition. I can’t imagine working at Microsoft and trusting anything that leadership team says regardless, but even the fact that they made that offer with all the cost cutting they’ve been doing just says that they aren’t being truthful about why they are doing it.
Wait, a giant corpo didn’t actually do cost-cutting because they ‘had’ to and instead lied to all of their employees about pocketing money?!
… … oh god, wait, I’ve misplaced my surprise Pikachu face… one moment…
In Finland this would be illegal. Firing employees requires reason, and if the reason for firing was “cost cutting”, the old employee must be hired back first before new can be hired. There are of course some time limits.
This is what unions do for you.