Microsoft's Seattle-area growth lags worldwide pace

posted by  mneon (8)  15 months ago (blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com)

Microsoft's employment in the Seattle region grew by about 6.5 percent, to 35,510 people, in its recently completed fiscal year, according to figures disclosed on the company's Web site this week. That means its local growth was slower than its worldwide growth. As previously reported, Microsoft's total worldwide growth rate was about 10 percent over the same time period. Excluding the United States, the company grew by about 13.5 percent internationally in the 2007 fiscal year, which ended June