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AOL to cut 10 per cent workforce
 
Indiantelevision.com Team

(31 January 2009 8:00 pm)

 

NEW DELHI: Time Warner's digital property AOL is laying off approximately 10 per cent of its workforce, that is 700 staffers, in a bid to tackle recession.

 

Says AOL CEO Randy Falco, “The deepening economic recession has affected every corner of the economy, including our own. Online marketers have tightened ad buying, reducing their spend by hundreds of millions of dollars. Our goal in doing this is to provide our core businesses the resources they need to thrive.”

According to the company, post the axing of jobs, the idea would be to concentrate investing on three key growth areas - advertising, publishing/websites and social networks.

 
Additionally, AOL is also abstaining from merit pay increases this year. The digital unit also plans to curb all sorts of flexible spending.

AOL will hand over the pink slips by March across the board and in different locations.

 
 
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