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The future is bleak for thousands of Microsoft employees as the Windows making firm is poised to lay off in thousands its employees worldwide, in a move to reorganize its sales force, according to report.
A source with knowledge of the planned downsizing told TechCrunch that the U.S. tech firm would lay off “thousands” of staff across the world.
According to TechCrunch, 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,” it said, adding that Microsoft declined to comment on the matter when contacted.
Earlier this weekend, Bloomberg reported ‘major’ layoffs related to a move to increase the emphasis on cloud services within Microsoft’s sales teams worldwide.
Bloomberg said the redundancies would be “some of the most significant in the sales force in years”.
The reorganization looks to be a result of a change of leadership this past year.
Executives Judson Althoff and Jean-Philippe Courtois took charge of Microsoft’s sales and marketing divisions following the exit of long-serving COO Kevin Turner last summer.
Althoff, for one, has been public in his criticism of previous sales approaches, and he is keen to make Azure a central part of the focus.
At any rate, the time is right for change, historically.
The end of Microsoft’s fiscal year typically falls in July, and in recent years it has been a time when the firm has announced headcount reductions.
Last year, Microsoft announced that it would cut 2,850 jobs – including at least 900 from its sales group – 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.
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