Phil Coachman loved working at Microsoft for most of his nearly decadelong tenure. But as the culture launched to shift and layoffs piled up, he decided it was time to relocate on.
In January, he resigned from his role as a senior cloud solution architect to focus on his job search.
“I just didn’t feel happy there anymore,” stated the 44-year-old, who lives in Pennsylvania. “I wanted to just continue creating cool stuff and not have this constant fear of losing my job every week.”
Coachman stated company layoffs — including the elimination of about 10,000 roles in 2023 — took a toll on his morale and that of his co-workers.
“Every team that I worked with was just down,” he stated. “So now you go to work and everybody’s depressed every day.”
Read more about how the Great Flattening affected Coachman’s morale on Business Insider: https://lnkd.in/eYK-FQZK
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