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A source with knowledge of the planned downsizing told TechCrunch that [Microsoft] would lay off "thousands" of staff across the world. The restructuring is set to include an organizational merger that involves its enterprise customer unit and one or more of its SME-focused divisions. The changes are set to be announced this coming week, we understand.
Microsoft declined to comment.
[...] Bloomberg said the redundancies would be "some of the most significant in the sales force in years."
[...] Last year, Microsoft announced that it would cut 2,850 jobs — including at least 900 from its sales group, according to The Seattle Times — having two months earlier said it would let go of 1,850 staff related to its smartphone business. In July 2015, it made 7,800 job cuts and wrote down $7.6 billion of its Nokia acquisition.
Source: TechCrunch
(Score: 2) by zafiro17 on Wednesday July 05 2017, @01:48PM (3 children)
I'm not sure this reflects any huge change in corporate priorities. Probably just looking for reduction in inefficiencies caused by competing sales mandates. Got to be tough to be in software sales, as you run the risk of being 'reorganized' just about every day. I'm friends with a MS salesguy in Europe. He makes scads of money (but has to really work hard for it), and is always in the offices of ministries, corporations, etc. It's a huge amount of work, and then in a penstroke, poof - you're gone.
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 05 2017, @01:52PM
Kinda like magic, huh? So, if I want to apprentice to a wizard to learn magic, I should go to Microsoft?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 05 2017, @08:38PM
Heh. iophk, an editor on the quasi-daily news digest at TechRights, said [techrights.org]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 05 2017, @10:00PM
I thought they got rid of all the QC people earlier?