Microsoft drops payback demand on ex-workers

rrossman2 writes: According to Reuters: 'The Redmond, Washington-based company, which announced a plan to cut up to 5,000 jobs in January, acknowledged on Sunday that it had tried to get the overpaid workers to return the extra money. But late on Monday, it reversed course.
"This was a mistake on our part," said a Microsoft spokesman in an e-mailed statement. "We should have handled this situation in a more thoughtful manner."'
All said and done, it was only 25 employees that had been over-paid.