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Microsoft will face the largest layoff in 39 years to acquire Nokia business

on July 17, Microsoft announced that it plans to cut up to 18000 employees this year, which will set the largest layoff scale in Microsoft's history, because it is digesting the transaction of acquiring Nokia business and adjusting its positioning to adapt to future development

on July 17, Microsoft announced that it plans to cut up to 18000 employees this year, which will be the largest layoff in Microsoft's history, because it is digesting the transaction of acquiring Nokia business and adjusting its positioning to adapt to future development

after the acquisition of Nokia business in April this year, the total number of employees of Microsoft is about 127104, which means that the scale of this layoff is equivalent to nearly 15% of its total employees

Microsoft said that at present, the company is laying off 13000 people, most of which will be carried out in the next six months and completed within the next 12 months. Among them, about 12500 laid-off workers will come from Nokia devices and Services Department, which is roughly equivalent to half of the total number of employees in this department. The total number of layoffs may reach 18000 at most

Microsoft said that it expected the severance and other expenses to reach $1.1 billion to $1.6 billion in the next four quarters

for Microsoft, this layoff measure shows that the company and its new CEO Satya NADELLA once again recognize that Microsoft is determined to make difficult decisions to improve its position in the technology field

NADELLA sent an email to employees on Thursday, saying: in order to achieve our aspirations, we need to build the company in the right way, and the first step is to reconfigure the company's labor force. It is important to point out that although we are downsizing in some areas, we are recruiting new employees in other strategic areas. My commitment to you is that we will complete this process as prudently and transparently as possible

in the previous years, Microsoft once attracted the anger of antitrust regulators because it understood that the structure of electronic universal testing machine occupied an excessively high market leading position; But today, Microsoft has fallen behind to the third place in the overall market of computing devices, personal computers, and tablets, and the gap between Microsoft and the top two is still very large. At the Microsoft Partners' meeting held last week, the slides presented by Microsoft showed that the company's share in the overall computing market was only 14%

also last week, NADELLA outlined his views in a 3100 word memo, pointing out that Microsoft must make changes in corporate culture and product development methods

on the day I took over the new job, I said that our industry did not respect tradition, but innovation. NADELLA wrote in the memo. I also said that in order to speed up innovation, we must rediscover our soul, which is our unique core

now the market wants to know whether this wave of layoffs will help Microsoft accelerate the pace of change, or will it bring more uncertainty

Futures: iron ore 1609 contract rose and fell throughout the day, with weak shocks. As for a detail of products, NADELLA pointed out that the company will convert some Nokia X series products based on Android system to products based on Windows system

at the beginning of 2009, affected by the global economic recession, Steve Ballmer, the then CEO of Microsoft, laid off 5800 employees, accounting for about 6% of the total number of employees at that time

NADELLA's restructuring plan aims to help Microsoft transform from a company dedicated to software business to a company selling services, applications and devices, so that ordinary users and business users can improve productivity. NADELLA needs to build Microsoft into a more formidable competitor of Google (Weibo) and apple, which dominate the mobile centric computing era

NADELLA declined to disclose whether the company would cut staff last week, saying only that he would disclose more information when the fourth quarter financial report was released on July 22. However, according to sources, Microsoft will also lay off software testers this time

Microsoft is also the latest technology company to cut company spending through layoffs. Previously, HP announced layoffs in May this year after its revenue fell for 11 consecutive quarters. Meg Whitman, CEO of HP, said that after 34000 layoffs, she would cut another 50000 employees

ibm is also rebalancing jobs. Market analysts said that this meant that about 13000 IBM employees would be laid off or transferred to their new owners along with their business. Both Intel and Cisco said last year that they were cutting jobs by about 5%

the following is the full text of NADELLA's email memo to Microsoft employees:

sender: 3 Eliminate the influence of uneven mixing of color masterbatch and masterbatch Satya Nadra

attention: all employees

date: July 17, 2014

theme: start developing and evolving our company organization and culture

in the email sent to you last week, I comprehensively elaborated our strategic development direction as a productivity and platform company. Having a clear focus is the starting point of this journey, not the end. We need to take more difficult steps to create our company organization and culture, so that our volunteers can become a reality. Today, I will share more information with you on how we will move forward in the future. At the financial report meeting on July 22, I will further share more specific information related to the areas in which we will focus our innovative investment

in order to achieve our aspiration, we need to build the company in the right way, and the first step is to reconfigure the company's labor force. With this in mind, we will start to reduce the overall workforce of the company by up to 18000 people in the next year. Among them, the relevant work aimed at creating synergy and strategic configuration for Nokia's devices and Services Department will account for about 1.25 jobs, and the laid-off personnel will include professionals and factory workers

at present, we are going to lay off 13000 people, and most of them will be notified in the next six months. It is important to point out that although we are downsizing in some areas, we are recruiting new employees in other strategic areas. My commitment to you is that we will complete this process as prudently and transparently as possible

for all employees who will be affected by these changes, we will provide severance pay and job transfer opportunities in many places. Everyone will receive due respect for their contributions to this company

later today, your senior management team members will share more information about what will happen to the company's organization. Our layoff action is mainly driven by two results: the simplification of work and the integration and strategic configuration of Nokia's device and service departments

first of all, we will simplify our working methods to further implement the accountability system, so as to become more flexible and fast. As part of the modernization of technological processes, every discipline will change. In addition, we also plan to reduce the management level in order to speed up the information flow and decision-making process, which will include flattening the company organization and expanding the control scope of personnel managers. In addition, our business processes and support models will also become more streamlined and efficient, and the mutual trust between teams will be enhanced

the overall result of these changes will be that all teams within Microsoft will become more productive and influential. These changes will have an impact on Microsoft's own labor force and dealers' employees at the same time. Every organizational change will start from different starting points and move forward at different speeds

secondly, we will be committed to integrating Nokia devices and service teams into Microsoft. We will achieve the synergy we promised when we announced the acquisition deal last September. The first-party product portfolio will be configured according to Microsoft's strategic development direction. In order to win in the high price product category, we will focus on breakthrough innovation in order to deliver and make more vivid the digital work and digital life experience of Microsoft D-sample thickness. In addition, we also plan to turn the specific design of Nokia X series products into lumia products based on Windows system. This will expand our success in the field of low-cost intelligence, and is also in line with our strategy centered on Windows universal apps

it is difficult to make these change decisions, but it is also necessary. Here I would like to invite you to participate in the monthly Q & a meeting I will hold tomorrow. I hope you can join in and ask any questions in your mind. I would like to thank you for your support as we move forward to develop and evolve our organization and culture. Tencent Technology