Microsoft will hire 1,000 employees in China next year
2012-09-10 11:37 (GMT+8)
Microsoft will be expanding in China next year with investments of money and manpower. (File photo/Xinhua)
Microsoft has announced plans to recruit 1,000 employees in China in 2013. The company will be looking for half of their potential staff from graduates of colleges and universities, reported The Beijing News.
He Lefu, CEO of Microsoft China, said that the company will expand its business in China, including hiring 1,000 new employees, while other global electronics companies were worrying about their layoff programs. New hires will be made in R&D, service and the technical support department.
The company currently has around 4,500 employees in the country.
Some global electronics companies such as Japan's Sony, US HP and European Nokia have plans to conduct large scale layoffs this year. The total workers laid off by multinational electronics companies have reached 51,529 in the first half of the year. The move was the first serious layoff program since the global economic crisis in July of 2009 in the electronics industry.
The company said that the company will invest more and provide cloud computing services for the country. He said that the total capital invested in China will reach US$500 million next year.
Shen Yuanqing, chief official of the R&D department at Microsoft Asia, said that the department has become the second largest R&D base for the company and the outsourcing business of Microsoft in China has reached up to US$200 million.
The expansion could be an opportunity for Microsoft to pass Applem, since the former has seen a revival of the PC market in China, analysts said. The revenue of Microsoft in the country, which occupies 22% of the global PC market, only came to 1% of its global revenue.
The launch of Windows 8 and the first tablet computer Surface will be the first advance for Microsoft in their grab for a larger share of the Chinese market, said analysts.
