{"id":958476,"date":"2025-08-29T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T03:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=958476"},"modified":"2025-08-29T09:26:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T03:56:54","slug":"two-microsoft-workers-fired-after-occupying-presidents-office-to-protest-ties-to-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/29\/two-microsoft-workers-fired-after-occupying-presidents-office-to-protest-ties-to-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Microsoft workers fired after occupying president&#8217;s office to protest ties to Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Microsoft employees were fired on Wednesday after taking part in a sit-in at the office of the company&#8217;s president to protest the firm&#8217;s ties to Israel as it wages war in Gaza. <\/p>\n<p>A Microsoft spokesperson said the workers were terminated following &#8220;serious breaches of company policies and our code of conduct&#8221; stemming from &#8220;the break-in at the executive offices.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Anna Hattle and Riki Fameli received voicemails informing them that they were fired, the protest group No Azure for Apartheid said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Microsoft employees were fired on Wednesday after taking part in a sit-in at the office of the company&#8217;s president to protest the firm&#8217;s ties to Israel as it wages war in Gaza. A Microsoft spokesperson said the workers were terminated following &#8220;serious breaches of company policies and our code of conduct&#8221; stemming from &#8220;the break-in at the executive offices.&#8221; Anna Hattle and Riki Fameli received voicemails informing them that they were fired, the protest group No Azure for Apartheid said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-958476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958476","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}