{"id":4046,"date":"2009-02-23T20:12:45","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T00:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hothardware.com\/News\/Microsoft-Backtracks-on-Overpaid-Severance"},"modified":"2009-02-23T20:12:45","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T00:12:45","slug":"microsoft-backtracks-on-overpaid-severance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=4046","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Backtracks on Overpaid Severance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we wrote previously, Microsoft over &#8212; and underpaid &#8212; a number of the 1,400 workers it recently laid-off. After a wave of criticism which occurred after Microsoft asked for the, ahem, overpayment back, Microsoft caved in. Microsoft human resources chief Lisa Brummel said the company had changed course. Twenty-five workers were overpaid and about twenty underpaid, Microsoft said. &#8220;I thought it didn&#8217;t make sense for us to continue on the path we were on. I have called now 22 out of the 25 impacted employees,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we wrote previously, Microsoft over &#8212; and underpaid &#8212; a number of the 1,400 workers it recently laid-off. After a wave of criticism which occurred after Microsoft asked for the, ahem, overpayment back, Microsoft caved in. Microsoft human resources chief Lisa Brummel said the company had changed course. Twenty-five workers were overpaid and about twenty underpaid, Microsoft said. &#8220;I thought it didn&#8217;t make sense for us to continue on the path we were on. I have called now 22 out of the 25 impacted employees, <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=4046\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}