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eBay Workforce High Bidder in Pink Slip Auction

John Paczkowski in News on October 6, 2008 at 7:23 am PT

The hammer has fallen at eBay. This morning the online auctioneer sacked about 1,000 permanent employees and a few hundred temps, about 10 percent of its workforce. That’s a bit less than the 1,500 workers for whom the company was rumored to be writing up pink slips, but it’s substantial just the same.