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Microsoft Lays Off 2,100, Axes Silicon Valley Research

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the end-of-the-line dept.

walterbyrd writes with news of Microsoft layoffs. Microsoft Corp will close its Silicon Valley research-and-development operation as part of 2,100 layoffs announced on Thursday, as it moves toward its new CEO's goal of cutting 18,000 staff, or about 14 percent of its workforce. News of the closure of the Microsoft Research lab at the company's campus in Mountain View, California, was first made public on Twitter by employees. The company later confirmed the move and said it would involve the loss of 50 jobs.

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  1. The more things change, the more they stay the sam by pkinetics · · Score: 3, Informative

    Layoffs in the USA, and hiring increases elsewhere.

    I remember a few years back reading how MS was proclaiming that they weren't increasing their H1B hirings. However, they were achieving the same results by doing it in Canada instead.

    More recent layoffs

    http://www.murthy.com/2014/05/...