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

[__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:Who lays off their Sales people?

[gweihir]

Indeed. I know of at least one large company (~50k employees) that will go all web-terminal before Win7 goes out of support. They looked at Win10 and decided that there was no way they would move to a platform with an ever-changing UI. Of course, all their internal stuff is already all web-apps, they just need to replace MS office with something web-based. But this is a good thing as the MS monopoly has done a huge disservice to the world.

Typical new fiscal year reorg

[StreamingEagle]

Microsoft reorganizes some parts of the company every year at this time. July 1st is the start of their fiscal year.