Microsoft asks laid-off workers for its money back

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

Microsoft is facing the mother of all PR disasters, after it sent out letters to some of the 1,400 workers it laid off last month, asking them to return overpayments in their severance pay (source: Techcrunch.com)

The report doesn’t state how much Microsoft overpaid the fired employees, but unless it was a lottery jackpot-sized mistake, surely a company that made a profit of $4 billion in the last quarter alone could afford to put it down to experience? 

Click here to read a copy of the leaked letter