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When Microsoft announced in January that the corporation was cutting five,000 work opportunities, it wasn;t obvious how quite a few waves it might consider to realize that count. It appears like the cuts aren;t performed yet, based on an original report of November 4 layoffs by TechFlash along with a follow-up by PaidContent.
(PaidContent is reporting Microsoft will probably lower 800,Microsoft Office 2007 Professional, citing a provider spokeswoman. It seems like those becoming lower might be notified starting these days. I;ve asked Microsoft to confirm this report and also have but to hear back. and also have gotten a phone back again confirming the 800 figure.)
Microsoft officials haven;t been prepared to offer a tally when asked to get a count regarding how numerous careers had been reduce by certain dates. The first round of layoffs was one,400. At that time, Microsoft officials stated to anticipate the “net headcount … to decline by 2,000 to 3,000 over the next 18 months.” (Some of those let go would be hired in other divisions, plus Microsoft planned to continue to hire in specific divisions, like Online Services, officials explained.)
In May, Microsoft made its second major wave of cuts but officials wouldn;t say how a number of individuals were let go. At that time, CEO Steve Ballmer mentioned that Microsoft reserved the suitable to lower more than the originally announced 5,000, if need be.
(Since then, Microsoft has shed a couple of thousand employees by selling Razorfish, but is set to acquire up to 1,000 Yahoos if and when its Yahoo partnership is consumated.)
Microsoft has been making cuts across the board — in sales, marketing and the product groups. Products and teams from Flight Simulator, to Office Accounting, all have been hit.
So is Microsoft done? Wall Street analysts have been bullish about the business;s cost-cutting measures — maybe bullish enough to spur more.
In Microsoft;s 10-Q statement, filed at the end of October, business officials implied layoffs were over. From that statement:
“In January 2009, we announced and implemented a resource management program to lessen discretionary operating expenses, employee headcount, and capital expenditures. As part of this program, we introduced the elimination of up to five,000 positions in research and development, marketing, sales, finance, legal, human resources, and information technology by June 30, 2010. We have now completed this program and reduced our overall variety of positions by approximately five,000 and headcount by approximately 4,600.”
It;s unclear if the beancounters had taken into account the new wave of 800 as part of those figures or if this week;s cuts are heading beyond the 4,600 who;ve been let go already.
Update: Microsoft spokesman Lou Gellos mentioned that prior to nowadays;s announcement, Microsoft already had minimize 5,000 positions but only four,600 people, since about 400 of those reduce found new positions at the enterprise. He said it;s not clear how lots of of the 800 minimize right now will be rehired. He said that Microsoft has now lower 5,800 positions total since January and indicated that — while no 1 is willing to say definitively that no more cuts are coming — Microsoft has exceeded its headcount reduction commitments.
Also no word but on which teams/groups are part of this week;s cuts. If I hear more, I;ll update this post.
Update No. 2: Don Dodge of Microsoft;s Emerging Internet business team is one of these days;s casualties.