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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Microsoft settles California probe over worker leave for $14 million

Microsoft Corp has agreed to pay $14 million to settle a California agency's claims that it illegally penalized workers who took medical or family-care leave, the agency said on Wednesday. The California Civil Rights Department in filings in state court accused the tech giant of retaliating against its California-based employees who used parental, disability, pregnancy and family-care leave since 2017 …

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8 months, 1 week ago

When Microsoft employees exposed passwords in major security lapse

Hindustan Times

Microsoft resolved a security lapse that exposed internal company files and credentials to the open internet, security researchers said. It was storing internal information relating to Microsoft’s Bing search engine which included code, scripts and configuration files containing passwords used by the Microsoft employees for accessing internal systems. The storage server was not protected with a password and could be …

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10 months, 1 week ago

From free snacks to napping room: What perks do Microsoft employees get?

Hindustan Times

Microsoft employees took to Instagram to show the variety of perks they enjoy while working at the company. The employees collaborated on a video highlighting their daily experiences in the office, featuring amenities such as free food and drinks, comfortable workspaces, and various other things. Then, other employees present how they have vending machines with free snacks, multi cuisine restaurants, …

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11 months ago

Microsoft lays off 1,900 employees in its gaming division following Activision Blizzard buyout

LA Times

Microsoft is laying off about 1,900 employees in its gaming division, according to an internal company memo obtained by the Associated Press on Thursday. Microsoft is laying off about 1,900 employees in its gaming division, according to an internal company memo, just over three months since the tech giant completed its $69-billion purchase of video game maker Activision Blizzard. “As …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Ex-Microsoft employee shares how she deals with rejections, encourages others to keep moving forward

India Today

The tech job market saw a lot of layoffs recently and in the last few months as several companies fired employees as a measure to cut costs and grapple with present market conditions. Microsoft, Twitter, Meta, Google, and Amazon, among others, laid off thousands of employees and since then, LinkedIn has been full of posts from people who have been …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Google sceptical of AI: Google doesn’t trust its own AI chatbots, asks employees not to use Bard

Firstpost

It seems that Google doesn’t trust any AI chatbot, including its own Bard AI bot. In an update to its security measures, Alphabet Inc., Google’s parent company has asked its employees to keep sensitive data away from public AI chatbots, including their own Bard AI According to sources familiar with the matter, Alphabet Inc, the parent organisation of Google, is …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Bosses Scared That Employees Slack Off While WFH: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella

News 18

Amid the rise of work-from-home culture post-Covid-19 lockdowns, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that bosses are scared that their employees slack off while working from home. “We have to get past what we describe as ‘productivity paranoia,’ because all of the data we have that shows that 80 per cent plus of the individual people feel they’re very productive — …

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3 years, 4 months ago

Tyson Foods, Microsoft to require vaccination for US workers

Associated Press

ARLINGTON, Va. — Tyson Foods will require all of its U.S. employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19, becoming one of the first major employers of front-line workers to do so amid a resurgence of the virus. Many companies that rely on large low-income workforces have far largely declined to mandate vaccines for their front-line workers, making Tyson’s announcement significant. One …

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3 years, 9 months ago

Gen Z are suffering the worst at work due to the pandemic

Live Mint

After a year of massive work-life balance disruption, working professionals in Asia seem to have reached an inflection point, with 47% looking to change jobs. The global average for both these stand at 41% and 46% respectively, say the 2021 Work Trend report published by Microsoft on Monday. Simply put, companies became more siloed than they were pre-pandemic,” said Nicole …

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4 years, 4 months ago

Microsoft is Reportedly Planning a Six-Phase Re-opening of Its Offices in US on January 19, 2021