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Redmond Report: Microsoft Eliminates 800 Positions
IT Blogwatch's blog: More layoffs at Microsoft: another 800 cut
Lee Pender Blog: Microsoft Lays Off a Few More than Expected
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Microsoft Eliminates 800 Positions
Redmond Report —
... Microsoft Eliminates 800 Positions Microsoft cut 800 positions worldwide on Wednesday. A report by TechFlash's Todd Bishop reported the cuts as a rumor on Tuesday , but they were confirmed today by Microsoft spokesperson Lou Gellos. "Earlier this year, we announced that in order to reduce costs, increase efficiency and prioritize our focus areas, we would eliminate approximately 5,000 positions by June 2010," Gellos explained in a prepared statement."Today, we are eliminating around 800 positions spread across multiple businesses and locations and have completed our reduction ...
More layoffs at Microsoft: another 800 cut
IT Blogwatch's blog —
... were often able to find other positions inside the company. This time around, there aren't enough of those open jobs available. While Microsoft has continued to hire in some areas, cushioning the effect of the job cuts, the company isn't expanding at nearly the rate that it has in the past. ... The layoffs had been rumored for weeks, based in part on reports of widespread reservations of conference rooms on Nov. 4, similar to the way they were reserved before previous layoffs. more Sebastian Rupley fingers netbooks again: While early reports on adoption of the company’s new ...
Microsoft Lays Off a Few More than Expected
Lee Pender Blog —
... . What's interesting about that is, apparently, the total number of layoffs will actually exceed 5,000. Should we take this as some sort of sign? Or is this just Microsoft carrying out the last phase of its plan to kind of, sort of slim down? The company's latest earnings report pleased Wall Street but still showed (not unexpected) declines in revenues and profits. Nevertheless, Microsoft is still a big company. Take a look at the chart in this TechFlash article ; it indicates that Redmond had not quite 20,000 employees back in 1995 and now has more than 90,000. We at RCPU ...
