unhandledexception.net Fellow Microsofties, I’ve got not so good news for you.
I was reading some blogs and stumbled upon one that mentioned that 872 layoffs were coming in March. Intrigued by such an exact figure, I dug deeper.
There’s apparently a WARN act, which stands for Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, which obliges big companies to notify states, labor unions and cities of a big layoff coming. Turns out that Microsoft did file one of these which can be seen on the state’s web site.
The useful data from there is that there is to be 872 layoffs starting on March 23. So with January’s 1400 that would bring the total to 2272, with 2728 more to go. There are many other Seattle-area companies planning layoffs. Times are really bad…