I know it’s not so nice to usher in the first day of the new year with such a bad news. But hey, everybody is talking about it and Fudzilla broke the news. It looks like the rumored Microsoft layoff may actually push through. And it even already has a date – January 15th.
Microsoft staff are said to have been informed already that the major layoff will actually happen and that the company is already preparing to implement the massive layoff, totalling to around 15,000 Microsoft employees worldwide. That equates to almost 17% of the total Microsoft employees all over the world.
What is not confirmed though is in which departments or regions those employees would come from. Although, there have been rumors that it could come from Microsoft’s office in the EMEA regions. Another rumor is that most of those employees would also come from MSN. Those who are well assured of not getting affected by the mass layoff would certainly be employees in Microsoft’s console sales, since the Xbox 360 although not as good as the Nintendo Wii, still manages to get a fair share of the console market.
Interestingly, the date when the layoff will be announced is set to happen a few days before Microsoft reports on its Q2 earning report.
I can have empathy for people losing their jobs, but I can’t help being happy about seeing Microsoft as a corporation in trouble.
I’d love to see Microsoft become a bit player, maybe with their most important product being the X-box and their operating systems just a bad memory.
Go, Microsoft, go. Downhill, quickly.
People like Anthony Lawrence amaze me. I guess it’s easy to dislike a winner… Like any great sporting dynasty, i suppose you start to pull for the underdogs after some time.
Here’s hoping the layoffs aren’t as bad as anticipated and here’s to continued growth by one of the US’s few cash-rich companies in no danger of requiring a tax-payer bailout.
It’s easy to dislike a company that even a Federal judge disliked for their avarice and said (From WikiPedia)
Microsoft executives had “proved, time and time again, to be inaccurate, misleading, evasive, and transparently false. … Microsoft is a company with an institutional disdain for both the truth and for rules of law that lesser entities must respect. It is also a company whose senior management is not averse to offering specious testimony to support spurious defenses to claims of its wrongdoing.”
But heck, nothing wrong with that, right? Nice folks. Good on them.
It is difficult to digest that corporate giant like Microsoft planning to have layoff. Hope that things go well for them in this new year with out further bad news.
Microsoft being top corporate giant of software areana,layoff is a shocker for the outside world and wish that good fortune help them without any further Layoff.
Microsoft is like the measuring stick for the I.T industry. If they are laying off their employees, other smaller companies will follow. One’s perception can lead to other’s chaotic decisions. Other businesses will be affect by it, not just in software development.
Is it possible that MSFT leaks fake layoff news to spur other smaller, less stable IT compeition to loose their cool and do stupid things?
Nope, just another penguin wet dream.
The news is bad (5,000 layoffs over 18 months) but fortunately not as bad as rumored.