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The Register: Corel staffers face up to prospect of 500 job cuts

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 30, 2000

Corel appears to be rapidly imploding, despite the C$15-30
million cash injection it successfully negotiated last
week.

“According to a Reuters report, the morale of employees is poor,
for all CEO Michael Cowpland’s claims that the mood among staff is
“good”.”

“Information from insiders suggests Corel has a C$40 million
cost-cutting target, and that’s inherently going to mean job losses
– potentially more than 500 of them, a big chunk out of Corel’s
1500-strong payroll.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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