Posted on Friday, January 02 2009 @ 20:03 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Word is
going around that Microsoft is planning to cut 15,000 jobs, roughly 17 percent of its global workforce, on January 15. According to rumor mill FUD Zilla, the biggest cuts will be made in Microsoft's MSN unit.
Mark January 15 in your calendar: Rumors of layoffs at Microsoft peg that as the day the bad news will come.
The latest to report on the possibility of layoffs at the software giant is the blog Fudzilla, which puts the number of job cuts at 15,000, or nearly 17 percent of Microsoft's worldwide operations. The January 15 date is a week before Microsoft's second-quarter earnings report, scheduled for January 22.
Microsoft also has a briefing for financial analysts planned for January 8 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, with the headliner listed as Robbie Bach, president of the entertainment and devices division.
Those purported layoff numbers are up from earlier rumors, which suggested that 10 percent of the company's employees would lose their jobs.
