The move to expand faster in Redmond doesn't necessarily mean Microsoft won't also add jobs overseas. In fact, the majority of the company's workforce is located outside of its home state -- with 33,000 workers scattered around the rest of the U.S. and the world compared to 30,000 in the Washington area.


Microsoft plans to speed up the expansion of the Redmond, Wash., campus it has called home for most of its 31-year history by spending approximately US$1 billion over the next three years.


By 2009, the software giant will build out approximately half of a 20-year plan to grow the facility by more than 30 percent, thus creating one of the largest corporate headquarters in the world. The plans have already been approved by Redmond city officials.


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