{"id":944378,"date":"2025-07-07T11:41:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T06:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=944378"},"modified":"2025-07-07T11:41:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T06:11:04","slug":"xbox-game-studios-exec-gives-ai-prompts-to-laid-off-microsoft-employees-to-handle-emotional-stress-caused-by-job-loss-deletes-post-after-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/07\/xbox-game-studios-exec-gives-ai-prompts-to-laid-off-microsoft-employees-to-handle-emotional-stress-caused-by-job-loss-deletes-post-after-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox Game Studios exec gives \u2018AI prompts\u2019 to laid-off Microsoft employees to handle emotional stress caused by job loss; deletes post after backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xbox Game Studios Executive Producer Matt Turnbull has recommended that recently laid-off Microsoft employees use AI chatbots to cope with job loss, offering specific prompts to help workers navigate unemployment. Turnbull&#8217;s since-deleted LinkedIn post suggested using tools like ChatGPT and Copilot to &#8220;help reduce the emotional and cognitive load that comes with job loss.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Turnbull\u2019s recommendation comes as Microsoft cuts 9,100 employees across the company, with Xbox divisions particularly affected by studio closures and game cancellations. &#8220;These are really challenging times, and if you&#8217;re navigating a layoff or even quietly preparing for one, you&#8217;re not alone and you don&#8217;t have to go it alone,&#8221; Turnbull wrote in his original post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xbox Game Studios Executive Producer Matt Turnbull has recommended that recently laid-off Microsoft employees use AI chatbots to cope with job loss, offering specific prompts to help workers navigate unemployment. Turnbull&#8217;s since-deleted LinkedIn post suggested using tools like ChatGPT and Copilot to &#8220;help reduce the emotional and cognitive load that comes with job loss.&#8221; Turnbull\u2019s recommendation comes as Microsoft cuts 9,100 employees across the company, with Xbox divisions particularly affected by studio closures and game cancellations. &#8220;These are really challenging times, and if you&#8217;re navigating a layoff or even quietly preparing for one, you&#8217;re not alone and you don&#8217;t have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}