Not a lot of good news this morning, I’m afraid, with layoff reports coming from two unusual companies: Google has let go 100 people from its recruiting staff and is “asking” engineers in Austin, Norway and Sweden to move to other offices. Seventy people are affected. Meanwhile, Microsoft’s rumored job cuts, though apparently numbering less than has been gossiped about (15,000 people, or 16 percent of the workforce), sound like they’ll be widely dispersed across business units. CEO Steve Ballmer told The Wall Street Journal that deep retrenchments aren’t “our company culture.”
Microsoft might announce the job cuts when it reports its financial results for the holiday quarter, planned for next Thursday. When it reported its last quarterly results in October, Microsoft said the weakening economy was prompting it to slow its hiring and cut other costs, such as travel expenses.
In Rare Move, Microsoft Is Exploring Job Cuts [WSJ]
Google Lays Off 100 Recruiters [ERE]
(and see Google’s blog posts here and here)
Apple’s Steve Jobs takes medical leave of absence [Mercury Center]
New IBM facility will bring 1,300 jobs to Dubuque [Des Moines Register]
Report: Oracle cuts workforce by 500 [CNet]
Seagate Layoffs Grow From 800 to 3,000 [NY Times]
Rackable Cuts Staff, Lowers Guidance [Data Center Knowledge]
Motorola Reportedly Close To Major Restructuring [InformationWeek]
Nortel Files for Bankruptcy Protection [WSJ]
An Ex-Yahoo’s Advice For Carol: Beware Yahoo’s ‘Say No’ Culture [Silicon Alley Insider]
How Does a 9/80 Work Schedule Work Out? [Slashdot]
January 19, 2009 at 8:38 pm |
Jobs has been such an inspiration to a lot of people… i hope he gets well soon