Microsoft on Wednesday began cutting a small number of jobs from its workforce, a source confirmed to CNET.
As previously reported, the layoffs are not expected to be the start of mass cuts, but are more similar to the types of reshuffling that the company does each year as it begins a new fiscal year. Microsoft started fiscal 2011 on July 1.
Microsoft has declined to comment on the cuts or say how many jobs are affected. However, a source told CNET that, even with the cuts, the company still expects to grow its ranks overall this year as it hires in other areas The company has also been growing its workforce in the past six months, after slashing thousands of jobs last year amid the global economic downturn. Those cuts, announced in January 2010, were the first widespread, across-the-board cuts in the company's history.
Although the job cuts this year are small, they are drawing particular attention because they come amid several pieces of negative news for Redmond, including the departure of two top Entertainment and Devices executives and the cancellation of the Kin phone just weeks after its debut.
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