Microsoft cuts 800 jobs, completes layoff plan
By siliconindia   |   Thursday, 05 November 2009, 14:33 IST
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Microsoft cuts 800 jobs, completes layoff plan
Seattle: Microsoft is going to sack at least 800 emoployees across its operations, on top of the 5,000 jobs it already eliminated under a plan to reduce costs that was announced in January. A spokesman for the software giant said that the latest job cuts are spread across the company's global operations, but about 200 are in and around its headquarters in Redmond, Washington. According to Reuters, Microsoft originally had planned to cut 5,000 jobs, or about five percent out of 96,000, before June 2010. The Microsoft Spokesman said that the plan has been expanded with the new layoffs and is now complete, well ahead of schedule. As of October 23, Microsoft had 91,005 employees worldwide, according to its website.

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