When Microsoft announced in January that the organization was cutting five,000 work opportunities,
Office Professional 2007, it wasn;t obvious how various waves it would get to realize that count. It seems to be like the cuts aren;t carried out yet,
Office 2007 Standard, according to an preliminary report of November 4 layoffs by TechFlash along with a follow-up by PaidContent.
(PaidContent is reporting Microsoft will lower 800, citing a business spokeswoman. It seems like those being minimize might be notified starting nowadays. I;ve asked Microsoft to confirm this report and also have but to listen to back again. and have gotten a phone back again confirming the 800 figure.)
Microsoft officials haven;t been prepared to present a tally when asked for the count as to how lots of careers had been cut by specific dates. The very first round of layoffs was 1,400. At that time, Microsoft officials said to expect 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 particular divisions, like Online Services, officials explained.)
In May, Microsoft made its second major wave of cuts but officials wouldn;t say how quite a few individuals were let go. At that time, CEO Steve Ballmer said that Microsoft reserved the ideal to minimize more than the originally announced five,000, if need be.
(Since then, Microsoft has shed a couple of thousand employees by selling Razorfish, but is set to acquire up to one,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 completed? Wall Street analysts have been bullish about the corporation;s cost-cutting measures — maybe bullish enough to spur more.
In Microsoft;s 10-Q statement, filed at the end of October, enterprise officials implied layoffs were over. From that statement:
“In January 2009, we announced and implemented a resource management program to minimize discretionary operating expenses, employee headcount,
Office Standard 2010, and capital expenditures. As part of this program, we introduced the elimination of up to 5,000 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,
Genuine Office 2010,000 and headcount by approximately four,600.”
It;s unclear if the beancounters had taken into account the new wave of 800 as part of these figures or if this week;s cuts are going beyond the 4,600 who;ve been let go already.
Update: Microsoft spokesman Lou Gellos mentioned that prior to right now;s announcement, Microsoft already had reduce 5,000 positions but only 4,600 people, since about 400 of these cut found new positions at the organization. He mentioned it;s not distinct how many of the 800 cut today might be rehired. He mentioned that Microsoft has now reduce 5,800 positions total since January and indicated that — while no one is prepared to say definitively that no more cuts are coming — Microsoft has exceeded its headcount reduction commitments.
Also no word however on which teams/groups are part of this week;s cuts. If I hear more,
Office 2010 Professional Plus, I;ll update this post.
Update No. 2: Don Dodge of Microsoft;s Emerging Organization team is 1 of right now;s casualties.
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