Microsoft Cuts 5,000 Jobs
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It is a bad news for some Microsoft employees. Five thousand Microsoft positions will be eliminated. Some of those jobs will be terminated immediately:
“Microsoft Corp. plans to cut up to 5,000 jobs over the next 18 months, including 1,400 immediately, as its profit tumbles amid PC market weakness.
The software giant said Thursday the moves were driven by deteriorating global economic conditions and lower client revenue, resulting from weakness in the PC market and a shift to lower-priced notebook models.”
link: Microsoft to cut 5,000 jobs amid lower profit
Whether one is a fan of Microsoft or not, one can sympathize with these employees. For over a thousand people who started the morning with a job, it is a very bad day at work. This recession does not spare the giants in technology.
Catherine Forsythe