1 percent of Microsoft India's workforce lose job
By siliconindia   |   Monday, 11 May 2009, 22:07 IST   |    13 Comments
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1 percent of Microsoft India's workforce lose job
Bangalore: Microsoft's layoff saga would render one percent of its workforce in India jobless. The company has sent notices to its employees in Bangalore and Hyderabad informing about eliminating their jobs. "A sizeable number of Microsoft's sales and support personnel in Hyderabad and a few in Bangalore were among those affected. The Response Windows team has also been dismantled completely," an anonymous source told Business Standard. The company's official spokesperson was unavailable for comment on the developments. The job cuts are part of Microsoft's global initiative announced in January that it would reduce 5,000 jobs worldwide by June 2010. At that point of time, the company had laid off 1,350-1,400 people largely in the U.S. On whether more layoffs would be announced in the India operations, which have over 5,500 people on its rolls, sources said that such a possibility could arise under a new round of job cuts, though no hint or official announcement to the effect has come from CEO Steve Ballmer. The company is known to be going ahead with plans to hire 2,000-3,000 workers worldwide this year in some of its growing areas of focus, including online services business and the enterprise server group.

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