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19:01Microsoft's Xbox layoffs: Who pays for lost focus?Leanne Elliott: Layoffs. Sadly, layoffs at Xbox, which are of course part of Microsoft. They are laying off 3,200 people. That's roughly 20% of Xbox's workforce Al Elliott: Wow Leanne Elliott: Yeah, they said that 1,600 EP 316 · 7 Jul 2026·news roundup· 19:01–23:2416:22Tech firm fires entire HR departmentAl Elliott: Yeah, yeah, agreed Leanne Elliott: Anyway, that went in a different direction than I expected. What have you seen this week, Al? Al Elliott: Well, this week I saw in, and again, a friend of the podcast, I've EP 306 · 2 Jun 2026·news roundup· 16:22–23:0932:02The Silicon Valley Anti-Tech-Bro ShiftLeanne Elliott: In the brains of these supertaskers. So a similar demanding memory task. So people were sat in front of a screen where squares appeared in different positions while letters were spoken through headphones,EP 282 · 10 Mar 2026·news roundup· 32:02–46:3735:31The uncomfortable truth about redundancyAl Elliott: I mean, speaking of redundancies, it's, you know, it's a lot of disruption we've seen in the tech industry last 12 to 18 months. I mean, what are your thoughts on the mass redundancies being made by so many tEP 162 · 14 Jan 2025·interview· 35:31–37:1541:36Navigating tech company cultureLeanne Elliott: Yes, tech companies are famous for their unique cultures. We've all heard about the legendary perks at big tech companies— free food, nap pods, and on-site gyms. But what is it really like to work in techEP 135 · 10 Oct 2024·panel interview· 41:36–48:5730:04Credit, Glory, and the Team DynamicBernard Brogan: We all know in the tech world there's hero engineers, there's obviously this big ego CEOs, etc. So there's a lot to some of that that maybe take, take the credit or take the limelight. A lot in the last wEP 48 · 20 Jul 2023·interview· 30:04–34:072:02The scale of the Twitter layoffs and broader tech industry contextAl Elliott: Now, I want to be, I want to be clear, we're not necessarily like just shitting on Twitter. That's not our plan here. Our plan is, in fact, what we did last in the last episode, we kind of broke it down into EP 13 · 22 Nov 2022·other· 2:02–3:32
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