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Microsoft cuts 800 more jobs

|   January 2010   |  FROM THE PRINT EDITION

Microsoft cut an additional 800 jobs last fall, bringing the total number of positions eliminated in 2009 to 5,800. Microsoft employed 91,005 globally and 40,244 in the Puget Sound area at the end of September. The recent 800 layoffs include 200 in the Puget Sound region.

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