Last June, Microsoft announced plans to add 5,000 new jobs with 3,000 to 3,500 of them being added in the USA. I posted this information to you on the old, unmoderated Gorilla thread at the time #reply-19146063 As of last October, over 65% of Microsoft's 55,000 worldwide employees were employed in the USA, and during the tech wreck, Microsoft's number of employees grew from 39,000 to 55,000. With such a high percentage of Microsoft's employees being employed in the USA, and with Microsoft continuing to add jobs in the USA, it seems like a bit of a stretch to describe MSFT as an offshore company.
Scroll to page 3 for headcounts: download.microsoft.com
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