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Admittedly, the company’s workforce has taken quite a hit since the year began.

In the leaked email highlighting the change, Nadella indicated it was due to tough “economic conditions.”

Satya Nadella

As such, the change negatively affected the employees' performance index and morale.

This also caused the employees to have mixed emotions over the company and its leadership based on their decision-making.

Perhaps, these are some of the issues that might have contributed to the not-so-good responses to the poll.

Satya Nadella contemplating during the annual Microsoft shareholders meeting.

Still, it’s a significant drop from last year’s 78% bet on the company.

That’s a 3% bump from last year’s 66% favorable responses to the question.

In 2021, 73% of the employees indicated it was a great opportunity to work at Microsoft.

Microsoft CFO Amy Hood.

What is leadership doing in response to this data point?," one employee asked.

“Signals results have shown that the top employee concern and negative sentiment involves compensation.

Yet recent news from Satya informed us that we will not be receiving merit bonuses this year.

Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates, former CEOs of Microsoft.

How do you reconcile this?”

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