The American company Microsoft spent the next stage of the downsizing. In the scope of optimization of the company and its adaptation under the latest requirements and concepts were dismissed 18 thousand employees.
Remember that the intention to dismiss 18 thousand employees adepts, Microsoft announced in early July 2014. The reduction is carried out in several stages, today was the 4th and last. Past milestones were implemented in early July, September and October last year. A substantial portion of the dismissed employees is 12.5 thousand people turned out to Microsoft after the acquisition of mobile phone maker Nokia in the spring of 2014.
In the process today of dismissal without work remained several hundred people, most of whom worked in the division of Microsoft IT. In General, the reduction seriously affected the Chinese workers in factories producing phones and tablets, which when leaving work, in order to smooth over the situation, gave their Lumia phones. Additionally touched on the branches of the study of operating systems, Xbox, Microsoft Research, MSN, Bing.
It is told that the cuts were among technical workers, professionals and engineers, and advertising departments. Also, the company covered the whole lab, Microsoft Research - research division, whose work is associated with innovation and modern research.
As specialists, we are told, the last few years with the development of the scalability and automation of the industry's most advanced information technologies, the demand for technical workers even in large international companies to ensure the normal functioning of the systems collapsed. Microsoft collaborates with a number of freelance professionals who work in the Corporation for a long time and successfully.
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