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What will — and won’t — Microsoft do in 2009?
All about Microsoft —
... (which takes effect in March, I hear), won’t get Microsoft in Google’s query-share ballpark. 8. Find itself defending its Windows Live/Windows 7 integration before the European Commission, possibly as a result of a new antitrust complaint lodge by Google. 9. Let go thousands of contractors, consolidate product groups and nearly freeze hiring. But not lay off any of its 90,000-plus full-time employees or require them to take unpaid vacation days. 10. Become so completely consumed by Apple envy that it over-invests on the consumer side of the house. In 2009, Microsoft’s ...
Rumors suggest Microsoft layoffs next month
VentureBeat —
... to hear that the company is preparing to lay off as much as 15,000 of its 90,000-employee company, or around 17 percent of its staff, before its quarterly earnings report on January 22nd. Another blog, Mini-Microsoft, has published a long list of quotes, off the record comments and other insider info of various sorts that indicate layoffs may be happening — or not. ...
Happy New Year Microsofties, Here’s Your Pink Slip?
Technologizer —
... earnings. The company is declining to comment on the reports, calling them “rumors and speculation.” Nobody seems to have any way to confirm it either, so I guess we’ll have to wait for folks to begin walking out of their offices with cardboard boxes in tow. Well probably find out sooner than that however, as Microsoft is mandated by securities law of informing stockholders of actions that may affect its stock price within 24 hours. Mini-Microsoft seems to think that layoffs may not be in the cards , however at the same time seemed to suggest that the pullbacks might come in ...
Report: Microsoft May or May Not Announce Layoffs
Digital Daily —
... Over at Mini-Microsoft, the Redmond insiders who frequent the site’s comments are incredulous over the layoff rumors, insisting that they are baseless. Costs will be cut, they say, but they will be cut through attrition and reduction in open headcount. “For the last time folks — THERE ARE NO LAYOFFS HAPPENINGS IN JANUARY,” writes one Mini-Microsoft commenter. “Beyond Jan…well we dont have a crystal ball — but if the economy doesn’t improve and the company misses targets — it would get uglier for everyone — from no ...
Report: "Massive layoff" unlikely at Microsoft
The Microsoft Blog —
... , Fudzilla backtracked saying, "There's a big chance that a large chunk of the 17 percent figure could come out of the agency staff." "Agency staff" appears to refer to contractors, who are not including in Microsoft's total headcount and therefore are not be included in the "90,000" figure. Mini-Microsoft, who initially wrote about a 10 percent lay off but admitted he was simply reporting of "rumors and second-hand speculation," followed up with a ...
It takes a lot to dismantle an Empire
All about Microsoft —
... , but it would send some very negative signals to Microsoft’s partners and customers. Think this through. Microsoft has a LOT of ways it can trim expenses without actually laying off any of its 90,000+ employees. I’m not advocating that the company do any of these things, but technically, CEO Steve Ballmer & Co. could: If these cost-cutting measures didn’t go far enough to appease the scorecard-happy bean counters and Wall Street analysts, Microsoft could institute a myriad of other unpopular measures before having to conduct mass layoffs. Again, I am not suggesting the ...
Microsoft Mass Firings "Grossly Exaggerated" (MSFT)
Silicon Alley Insider —
... Mini-Microsoft, who initially wrote about a 10 percent layoff but admitted he was simply reporting on "rumors and second-hand speculation," followed up with a ...
Microsoft to Deepen Seattle Labor Pool
Digital Daily —
... Rumors of significant job cuts at Microsoft (MSFT) have been circulating for weeks, dismissed often as not as specious. How could the software giant retrench like this? The company’s never had major layoffs in its 34-year history. ...
