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In today’s great history, Microsoft is rethinking how it evaluates employees and treats subforcers.
What is on the deck:
Markets: The job ratio is tomorrow, but do not expect a decrease in size numbers. That’s why.
Technical: Meta received a list of former employees who will not reopen.
Business: Brashi’s Tactics of Lulu Cheng Meservey concern some of her peers, but her big -name clients can’t get enough.
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Microsoft’s Performance review is in a pip.
The technology giant is rethinking how you estimate employeesAccording to Ashley Stewart of Business Insider, who spoke to some people with knowledge of plans.
The result can be Microsoft taking a tougher attitude towards employees who are considered low interpreters. The trials of this came early this year when Microsoft did hundreds of Performance -based cuts in January and February.
In many ways, it is an explosion from the past for Microsoft, which once had a reputation for making difficult ratings. The arrival of Satya Nadella as CEO more than a decade ago changed it, with the company taking a softer attitude. Some even called Microsoft a “local club”.
Microsoft’s current process for managing low interpreters can receive months of documentation. A high -level manager told Ashley average time to get out of a low performer after a HR notified manager was about seven months. This process may be further delayed if an employee receives a shortage break, which can reset the clock.
But with the heating of his race, Microsoft wants to move faster and more efficiently. Like her peers Meta, AmazonAND GoogleThis means taking a deeper look at his performance review and management process.
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Microsoft’s potential Pivot also shows where he had the greatest impact so far.
Since the arrival of Chatgpt a few years ago, there has been much speculation about all the work that risked being automated by him.
The reality, however, is that technology is not advanced enough to completely replace roles. Efficiency can be achieved that allow a company to cut some accounts, but it has not fully deleted jobs in most cases.
In fact, the industry is breaking the most is what builds it: technology.
It is not just a matter of the one who automates the affairs of the people. (Although they are looking for Dicey software engineers.) Massive giants of betting technology are doing in it is forcing them to reassess all their operations to be as effective as possible, and those changes do not come easy.
Maybe the change was always coming. Increasing interest rates and maturity of these companies may have naturally led a phase of landing down.
But the billions of billions on technology that has not fully planned from a business perspective certainly did not slow down things.
News
3 things in the markets
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1. Federal workers’ dismissal pains will be largely invisible in Friday job report. Doge’s February Fires will not be reflected in Bureau of Work Statistics Bureau Because of the time of cuts. And, although job losses will appear in a more distant report, they will certainly not make a great trace in general.
2 Are we on the verge of a “Trumpceration”? EXEC Wall Street Jeffrey Solomon is part of a small but increasing predictors using the scary word R: RECESSION. In an interview with CNBC, Solomon said a commercial war could affect the supply chains and encourage business leaders to pump the brakes in making agreements. Some signs already indicate an economic slowdown, and Solomon is not just in the shaking of the red flag.
3. Brevan Howard is telling investors “True Risk” is not entering cryptocurrencies. For years, institutions have kept their distance from digital assets. Brevan Howard’s general director told BI Tipping Point to institutional investors is on the horizonThanks to the increase provided by President Trump and Crypto Czar David Sacks. The firm, whose digital property unit increased more than 52% in 2024, wants to be the right place for the institutions saved.
3 things in technology
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1. Meta holds the “block” lists of former employees. Meta employment managers sometimes follow relaxed workers. They express interest, set a review call – and then the ghost. That’s because some former employees are on the lists they consider them “Inappropriate for Rehire,” Even if they have a record written about the expectations of managers that exceed. The story of BI promoted a reaction from Former HR chief of Google Laszlo Bock.
2. Google searching is going to mode. The technology giant said it plans to test a new “AI Mode” feature that aims to answer users’ questions with “a wider and more diverse group” of energy results. Instead of the sums of he, who answer the questions with a direct answer to the top of the score page, the new mode he takes things a step further from Generating a whole page.
3. Great events for major ratings. TV networks have been fighting with the maintenance of their audience for years. But Peter Kafka E Bi was caught in a pattern to get more eye: Transmission of direct sports and display prices. The latest Oscars, the Super Bowl and the Olympiads received lumps to the viewers, and the broadcast was part of their equation.
3 things in business
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1. Tap for Pitbull adored by Sam Altman and Bari Weiss. Lulu Cheng Meservey is one of the most sought -after stones of communication by Silicon Valley, known for its extremely aggressive “going directly” strategy. Less fascinated are her PR peers, who are not sold in her style of luggage congress, tweeting crazy and playing insult with the press. However, Cheng Meservey won the admiration of the founders of the beginning from telling them how she thinks.
2. A new Doge employee was associated with a fertility clinic and is related to the property movement. Miles Collinswhose association with Dage was first reported by BI is an initial founder who says employees have worked in the Labor Department. Collins was linked to a California fertility clinic, which is now facing lawsuits accusing it of mistreating employees, although the company has denied wrongdoing. Collins is also the brother of a prominent property, a movement Elon Musk has also spoken in favor of.
3. A tariff spirit for car companies. President Donald Trump is giving three big manufacturers – Stellantis, Ford and General Motors – A pause In his latest tariffs to avoid an “economic disadvantage”. But there will be no other break when the second round of trade -related tariffs comes into force on April 2, and additional tariffs for steel and aluminum are coming this month.
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What is going on today
- Macy’s, Costco and Kroger report revenue.
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