By Jo Best, 10 December 2003 14:20
NEWS AOL has announced that it will be cutting another 450 jobs and shut two of its offices in a move that will see its software development presence dramatically cut.
The main bulk of the cuts will see 375 jobs go from its Mountain View campus in California reducing AOL's workforce in the state by more than half. Just 300 software developers will be left holding the fort in the Sunshine State.
The ISP also announced 50 staff will lose their jobs in San Fransisco and 25 in San Diego will also pick up their P45s, while 100 of the employees will be offered the chance to up sticks and work in alternative offices in Virginia or New York or face the prospect of joining their colleagues on the welfare queue.
The redundancies are part of AOL's drive to cut costs it's around $24bn in debt - and "centralise" following a drop in subscriber numbers and a big fall in ad revenues.
It's not the first series of job cuts the service provider has undertaken to keep its finances on track several rounds of job cuts have seen hundreds of call centre staff and HQ employees getting the elbow, while back in July, the company took the hatchet to its Netscape staff, leaving the browser team as a skeleton staff.
The ISP now employs around 19,000 people worldwide.
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