News Source: International Business Times
| about 1 month ago
Microsoft announced 800 layoffs Wednesday, in what the company hopes will be the last in its recent series of job cuts. In January, when Microsoft announced first announced it will cut 5,000 jobs, CEO Steve Ballmer said they came as Microsoft faced...
News Source: India Abroad
| about 1 month ago
The layoffs are expected to be across different locations and businesses. Sources said the number of possible lay-offs could be close to 800. When contacted, a Microsoft India spokesperson said the impact on the company's India headcount would be in...
News Source: The News Tribune
| about 1 month ago
Microsoft Corp. began a round of about 800 job cuts Wednesday, exceeding the 5,000 total announced this year as part of its first-ever companywide layoffs. When completed, Microsoft will have eliminated about 5,800 jobs as part of the program, Lou...
News Source: Seattle Times
| about 1 month ago
Microsoft reminded Seattle on Wednesday that when it rains, it pours sometimes. The software giant said it's cutting more jobs than expected in a broad, cost-cutting program that began in January, the first major layoffs in its 34-year history. The...
News Source: United Press International
| about 1 month ago
U.S. software giant Microsoft said it would lay off 800 workers on top of a previously announced cutback of 5,000 announced in January. "In the ensuing 11 months from January until now, we realized we had to move a little beyond the 5,000, so that...
News Source: The Christian Science Monitor
| about 1 month ago
Microsoft said that its quarterly earnings beat analysts’ expectations and its newest operating system, Windows 7 , sprinted out of the gate . This drove up stock prices and lead to thoughts that maybe the worst was behind them. But today we’re...