AOL announced the color in late November. On 6 900 employees, 2 500 people were invited to take voluntary departure, otherwise there would be layoffs. Having only received 1 100 applications for voluntary departure, the Internet group has begun to deploy, yesterday, a comprehensive plan layoffs. In France, management presented a plan to close the staff representatives. One hundred employees are concerned. Germany is also poised to close shop. The AOL offices in Sweden and Spain will close early. The first redundancies notified on Monday, will take effect on Wednesday. AOL, which has left the fold of Time Warner in early December, having provisioned for 200 million dollars in charges.