Microsoft just laid-off 300 employees who were told the day before that their jobs were safe

Microsoft just laid-off 300 employees who were told the day before that their jobs were safe (cnbc.com)<br><br>Summary: Microsoft laid off around 300 employees who were told the previous day that their jobs were safe. The company apparently had to rescind the offers due to an "error" in their internal systems. The employees were offered severance packages, including three months' pay and help finding new positions.<br><br>Context: The employees had been told that they wouldn't lose their jobs as part of the company-wide restructuring. An email at 2.30am corrected that, and told them that their employment was being terminated immediately.<br><br>The employees are in roles like marketing and communications. They will be given outplacement services from a third-party firm. Some employees were woken up by the email and found out that they had lost their jobs.