Microsoft cut 3,000 jobs due to the transfer of the focus on cloud services
Microsoft announced plans to cut up to 3,000 jobs as part of the process of reorganization, which will allow the software giant to focus its efforts on expanding cloud business.
It is expected that the reduction will affect mainly the sector of sales, which will be laid off less than 10 % of staff and 75 % of jobs will be reduced outside of the United States.
Of an anticipated reduction in software company in connection with the reorganization and change in priorities reported earlier, a number of resources. In addition, Microsoft has developed a tradition to hold a reorganization at this time of year before the start of the next fiscal year.
“Microsoft is implementing changes to improve the quality of services for our customers and partners, said a Microsoft spokesperson in a statement sent to CNBC. — Now we are taking measures to inform some employees that their jobs are under consideration or that their positions will be cut. As with all companies, we analyze our business on a regular basis. This can lead to growth of investment in some areas and, from time to time, to re-deployment to other (segments of)”.
New Microsoft approach to cloud services is that the company sees in this direction, growth potential, because she fights with such competitors as Amazon and Google. Lately, cloud and server business brings Microsoft profit, the profitability of server products and cloud services grew by 15 %, while revenues cloud platform Azure in the last quarter increased by 93 %.
The last major reorganization of Microsoft was held a year ago after the former chief operating officer Kevin Turner (Kevin Turner) has left the company.
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