Redmond staff to likely to learn fate next week



From V3:

Bloomberg reported that Microsoft will make the cuts in a number of divisions, mostly where roles are overlapping from its acquisition of Nokia, such as around sales and marketing, with the cuts also likely to hit its Xbox division.

Currently the firm’s headcount stands at a whopping 127,104 and it is clear new CEO Satya Nadella wants to reduce this. On Friday, in a company-wide email that was made public, he said he wanted to improve operational efficiency at the firm.

“Every team across Microsoft must find ways to simplify and move faster, more efficiently. We will increase the fluidity of information and ideas by taking actions to flatten the organisation and develop leaner business processes,” he said in the memo.

  Microsoft planning major job cuts, Nokia and Xbox staff face axe