June 8, 2025

You know that the squeeze is coming when Microsoft announced last month that it plans to lay off 6,000 employees, or 3 percent of its workforce, across the board. This is indicative of a) reformation/restructuring of workflows and b) consolidation of job functions. This is seen as Amazon lays off 14,000 mid-level managerial positions by early 2026. Salesforce will not hire any new engineers in 2025 because the remaining programmers are more productive with AI. You get the idea...