Microsoft announcing 200 layoffs

Microsoft employs about 92,000 employees worldwide, 40,600 of whom work in the Puget Sound area.

The approximately 200 layoffs come from the company's worldwide marketing force of about 6,000 employees. The positions affected apparently cut across a broad range of groups including Windows, Office, Server & Tools, Online Services and Windows Phone as well as the central marketing group.

The layoffs -- the majority of them in the local area -- are part of a restructuring of the company's marketing department aimed at reducing duplication of job responsibilities, clarifying the roles of central marketing versus product-group marketing, and improving the impact of the company's marketing as a whole.

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