Comments on: Hundreds Cut In Surprise Microsoft Layoff

By: frank burns

frank burns — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:31:22 +0000

When news surfaced I thought that this action should be questionable because you are adding to the economic downturn by laying staff off. Surely by reducing their take home pay you could facilitate a little bit of Employer Loyalty or on the outside, keep them on a retainer until you can find suitable employment for these multi-skilled employee's. Don't forget they may have mortgages and families to provide for, and in better times, these very same people helped to build the Microsoft Empire what it is today. I am an Australian and I do not believe redundancy is the solution.

By: Daya Baran

Daya Baran — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 03:22:49 +0000

Hi Mahesh, I replied to your earlier email with sources. You can read about the lay offs on the current and ex Microsoft employee blogs http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/63482 and http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2010/07/kin-fusing-k... and several other sites:
1. http://it.tmcnet.com/topics/it/articles/91304-hun...
2. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/63482
3. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/...
4. http://venturebeat.com/2010/07/07/microsoft-layof...

By: Warren

Warren — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 19:11:22 +0000

…connected or not, there’s reporting – and then there’s “blogging” out the arse.

By: Jason T

Jason T — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 19:00:01 +0000

Mahesh you must be new to WebGuild. Take my word, everything Daya says is gospel. This guy is more connected than most people will ever be in many lifetimes.

By: Mahesh Singh

Mahesh Singh — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:27:20 +0000

What is your source of information? Please substantiate all such articles with references to other news articles and/ or compnay press releases and/ or specific quotes by named company sources.