Microsoft give leaves to thousand of employees

Microsoft is researching the possibility of thousands of employees laid off because of the economic slow down. Up to 17% of Microsoft's global workforce can get ax. As a U.S. company, experts are warning that foreign workers will be the first to be as many as 15,000 have been completed jobless.Microsoft are 3000 workers in Britain are facing an uncertain 2009 as the software giant will take a plan for substantial redundancy to combat it economic downturn. At least 10 percent and perhaps as much as 17 percent of the global workforce to cut what would become the first mass-produced produced lay-offs in its 32-year history.

In a foreign land divisions may be particularly hard hit, and an explanation of the plan could come within two weeks. Pilotage Association said yesterday that it does not comment on conjecture. Analysts say the software giant faces pressure on several fronts this year. With retail spending, which has turned down, sales of the Windows operating system - installed in nine out of ten PCs - can be slow. The companies are also scaling back the percentage percentage, threatening royalties from Office products, including Microsoft Word and other Business Software. At the same time, online advertising growth has reduced sharply due to the recession that threatens Microsoft hopes to make a profit on its troubled MSN Internet business. "The prevailing wisdom on Microsoft is that the company May pre-announce disappointing results in December", Brad Reback, a market analyst with the Oppenheimer & Co., told clients.

100 of 10 percent reduction in Microsoft's 90,000 global workforce could save $ 1.2 billion a year, analysts say. A Silicon Valley website reported during New Year holidays, up to 17 percent of Microsoft employees may lose their jobs, with internal communication in the company. Website, Fudzilla, said that the divisions may be disproportionately affected.Microsoft set up its British subsidiary in 1982 its first overseas outpost, seven years after Bill Gates created the company to make operating systems for nyvekket PC market. Employees are focused on the UK headquarters in Reading, although the British branch of MSN operated from London. The company has nearly doubled in size in Britain over the past five years. Microsoft is due to detail salary for the last three months of 2008, January 21, but may pre-announce any revenue short-fall and any reform ring strategy.

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