Remember those 2nd round of layoffs Microsoft started as part of its plan to cut 5,000 jobs? Well it seems that not only were individual employees were affected, but entire products as well.According to both Cnet News and Liveside, the services Microsoft will be scaling back, but not eliminating completely include ResponsePoint phone system, its .Net Micro Framework, and its MSN Direct Service. The entire editorial staff of MSDN Magazine and Tech-Net magazine were also eliminated, although it is uncertain if the magazines themselves survived. Windows, Office, Windows Live, and Live Search were mostly unaffected.
While 1,200 of those cuts came from Redmond, WA, other offices were hit including India, Ireland and the UK. The entire Madison, Wisconsin office was also closed according to a comment on Microsoft Mini.
Despite these cutbacks, the company is still hiring, and are still planning to hire 2,000 to 3,000 workers this year in their growing areas of focus.
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Perhaps you should finish your English classes first.
I find this response funny. As someone who has bounced around from company to company since the 90's doing contract work between long unemployment times with no benefits, Microsoft is a great company to work for. Keep in mind, most people outside a company always say that a company is a bad place to work but that is always on the outside. We get unbelievable insurance that I have never found elsewhere as well as outstanding pay. On top of that, I get to support the product that my company creates so I get better hands-on knowledge than most.
I agree that Google is a great place to work because I believe that they are similar in how they provide opportunities to their employees. That being said, it is easy to talk bad about a company when you have never worked there.
Also, I am not trying to insult your opinion but I wanted to give a different side from someone that does work there.
Watch this video and you might change your mind...
If products aren't effected by laying off employees it means as a company prior to that you are probably over bloated and hiring unnecessary people. Doesn't this article state the obvious with regards to how sacking people work in almost any company that design new things.
The only way of removing employees without affecting the company is when demand for something drops and reduces the need for people (such as manufacturing people can be reduced when demand drops, but design staff essentially remain constant regardless to if you make 100,000 of 10,000 of something)
AHHH GRAMMAR!
Sorry.
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