REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft Corp. says it is cutting 800 more jobs. That's in addition to the 5,000 layoffs it announced in January.
Lou Gellos, a Microsoft spokesman, said Wednesday the cuts are being made in offices around the globe. He would not say what specific product groups or job types are affected.
Gellos also says Microsoft had already let nearly all of the 5,000 go, in what was the company's first-ever widespread layoffs.
Microsoft also said in January it would continue to hire in key areas such as Web search. The software maker, based in Redmond, Wash., employed about 94,000 people as of the end of December 2008. At the end of September, about 91,000 people worked for Microsoft, indicating the company has added 2,000 jobs this year.
jackwong said on November 5, 2009 at 4:14 AM
Truly a sad day for Washington State. This calls for more taxes, stimulus spending, and low interest rates to help the economy. I feel Obama is picking all the right moves thus far... we just have to put in some patience to wait for it to happen. We must have the audacity of hope just as the President does. Even if the economy does not recover in his first term, we must re-elect him so he may finish the job before a Republican can come back and ruin it for all of us with stupid tax cuts, more wars, and embedding the white house with greedy corporations like Halliburton.