Microsoft
recently sacked an employee who worked in the company for over three decades. In February,
Jeff Bogdan
, who served as the Director of
Learning and Development
(L&D) at
Microsoft Windows
was reportedly abruptly terminated from his position. Bogdan recently took to
to reflect on his "incredible" journey with the tech giant after his unexpected departure.
Earlier this year, Microsoft slashed at least 1,900 jobs from Activision Blizzard and Xbox. This affected around 8% of the overall Microsoft gaming division which has nearly 22,000 employees.
Read what Bogdan said about his tenure at Microsoft
In his
LinkedIn post
, Bogdan wrote: “My 33-year run with the wonderful Microsoft came to a close in February when my job was eliminated.
I spent the last 2 weeks at Microsoft trying to say a "proper goodbye" to my enormous second family.
I then spent the 2 weeks that followed in Chelan, half the time with family and half the time in solo reflection.
My entire MS career has been an incredible ride. The three products I am proudest of are Windows Phone, Zune, and Windows 95. But the biggest payoff for me came in these last 2 years, when I pitched and landed an L&D role in Windows. My premise was that, after successfully spreading a "learn-it-all" mindset throughout the org, it was time to spread a "teach-it-all" mindset to accompany this. I focused on organizing the learning investments for a 2,000-person org and then worked to align that with learning & development offerings from our parent organisations and central HR.
My job elimination was the result of HR adopting the hub & spoke model for L&D that I was pitching. Sadly, when my division already had their L&D team in place, there wasn't a seat at the table for me.
After abundant reflection, I have concluded that I am nowhere close to the "R-word". There is still so much that I want to contribute. So now begins the journey of finding my second career.
The simple start is via consulting. I'm seeing consulting as a way to learn more about the industry and understand where my expertise can best advance the industry.
#OpenToWork is not expressive enough. More like ...
"Open To Anything: Let's Have A Deep Discussion; Let's Explore Together".”
Since Bogdan shared this post, it received over 2,800 reactions and numerous comments.
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