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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 06, 2023
> At the same time, Microsoft in Kenya has been laying off employees since the year began. Most of those laid off had been poached from giant companies such as Safaricom. Banks and other companies have also been following suit.
> Microsoft has called off the search for a swanky 500,000 sq ft office in the heart of England's capital amid a cost-cutting drive that has seen thousands of employees forced out.
> According to React News, Microsoft's office tenancy in Reading is coming to an end in 2026 so senior management were eyeing up other options.
> Amazon Games is cutting over 100 employees as part of the most recently announced wave of layoffs. As CNBC reports, Amazon Games Vice President Christoph Hartmann announced the news in a company memo on April 4. Hartmann wrote in the memo,
> Estranged from its contemporaries amid massive tech layoffs sweeping across the industry including the Big tech layoffs, Apple has now had to jump on the diabolical bandwagon of corporate furloughs. As prudent efficiencies go, corporate layoffs in technology take the off-putting biscuit.
> When the tech giant introduced the first-ever color graphics in the computer industry, it had ricocheted to $117 million in sales in 1980 from a modest $7.8 million in 1978. The glorious success of Apple is multidimensional, but unshakable as the company that espoused ‘innovation’. Even the 1996’s almost-bankruptcy crisis was averted when Steve Jobs decided to return to Apple to erode its standstill development.
> So why did Apple, the company that distinguished itself from the wave of big tech layoffs over the industry, suddenly bite the dust?
> Cupertino-based tech giant Apple has joined industry counterparts in instituting layoffs this week, according to a new report by Bloomberg. The job cuts will reportedly be confined to “a small number of roles within its corporate retail teams.”
> The news comes one week after a security contractor retained by Apple laid off hundreds of workers, a move the company described as a shift in service providers.
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