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Microsoft: H-1B workers among those losing jobs
Published 1/26/2009 by patrick_thibodeau@computerworld.com at Latest from Computerworld
Microsoft Corp. says it is cutting a "significant number" of foreign workers as part of the layoff of 1,400 employees last week, a number that is due to reach 5,000 over the next 18 months.
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