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• Microsoft to lay off 10,000 workers

  Posted on January 23, 2023 at 02:42 CST by Will Fastie • Comment in the Forums

  MICROSOFT NEWS

  

  By Will Fastie

  Microsoft will reduce its worldwide workforce by 5% due to economic uncertainty.

  On January 18, 2023, Satya Nadella sent to all Microsoft employees a letter titled Focusing on our short- and long-term opportunity. The note contained his explanation for the contraction of the workforce.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.04.0, 2023-01-23).

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• Microsoft layoffs: What the bloodbath leaves behind

  Posted on July 17, 2014 at 10:25 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Yes, 18,000 employees get the heave-ho, but there’s much more to the announcement.

  InfoWorld Tech Watch.

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• New round of job cuts at Microsoft

  Posted on May 6, 2009 at 08:48 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Mary Jo Foley reports that Microsoft has started its second round of planned cuts, with emphasis on sales, marketing, and support.

  When the layoff announcement came in January, MS immediately cut 1,400 people, anticipating that 3,600 more would be cut in the ensuing 18 months. Looks like this round of cuts will come close to the 3,600.

  Roughly half the people cut are in the US, the others are overseas.

  Still, MS expects to hire 2,000 to 3,000 more people in the next year, primarily for its Online Systems Division, which has been enormously unprofitable, according to MS’s latest earnings report. Online Systems seems poised to post a $2,000,000,000 loss this fiscal year, ending June 30, 2009, give or take a penny.

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