Microsoft UK fires seven over staff purchase abuse
Microsoft UK has sacked seven employees and called in police following the "alleged abuse of [its] employee purchase programme".
The giant software company declined to go into details about incident citing legal reasons but confirmed that seven people had been dismissed.
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The alleged abuse is understood to involve the acquisition of discounted Microsoft gear through the company's employee purchase scheme which was then sold.
Details of the dismissals were contained in an internal memo seen by The Register, which Microsoft UK MD Alistair Baker wrote to staff just before the Christmas: "I am sorry to announce that after a thorough investigation into the alleged abuse of our Employee Purchase Programme, we have taken the decision to dismiss seven employees from Microsoft Limited.
"The employees involved were all members of the GTSC and Services teams.
