Microsoft Is Laying off 'Thousands' of Staff in a Major Global Sales Reorganization (techcrunch.com)

An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft is poised to layoff thousands of employees worldwide in a move to reorganize its salesforce. A source with knowledge of the planned downsizing told TechCrunch that the U.S. firm 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. Earlier this weekend, the Puget Sound Business Journal, Bloomberg and The Seattle Times all 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."

Comments

QA

[thegreatbob]

Guessing they're sacking the rest of their QA staff, since Windows 10 is clearly coming along so nicely. /snark

Re:QA

[Hognoxious]

Guessing they're sacking the rest of their QA staff

Come on. Surely they won't get rid of both of them.

Re:QA

[__aaclcg7560]

After all the testing got done with Windows 10, the QA testers got laid off and rehired as customer support representatives in the Bangalore call center.

Re: "Layoff" is not a verb, dammit.

[Anonymous Coward]

Fuckoff.