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Microsoft Lays Off 800 Workers
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Thu 05 Nov 2009
Despite signs of the global economy recovering, Microsoft is still moving forwards in their attempt to streamline company operations and focus their energies on their core businesses. The plan is reduce to reduce workforce by 5000 positions come June next year, and today, they've just announced that 800 employees will be laid off.
Tom's Hardware - “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. Today, we are eliminating around 800 positions spread across multiple businesses and locations and have completed our reduction plan sooner than we had anticipated 11 months ago. At the same time, we continue to hire in priority areas, but also understand that continuing to manage our businesses closely, as we always do, can mean additional headcount adjustments.”
Among the 800 is one Don Dodge, Microsoft’s Director of Business Development for the Emerging Business Team, a man who TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington has great respect for. To read the original article, click here.
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