Posted on 09/18/2014 12:58:17 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has brought down his axe again, sending off the next batch of the 18,000 employees he has promised will lose their jobs by the end of the year.
The Redmond supremo issued about 2,100 pink slips on Thursday, the Seattle Times reports, bringing the total number of layoffs to approximately 15,100 and counting.
Throughout the process, Nadella has maintained that most of the cuts will come from Microsoft's new devices and services business, which it bought from Nokia in April. Professional positions and manufacturing jobs in Nokia's factories around the world will be eliminated, he said.
But that still leaves thousands of jobs to be lost across Microsoft's business in the US and elsewhere, and Thursday's layoffs reportedly included 747 employees in the Puget Sound region of Washington, which includes Seattle, Bellevue, and Microsoft's hometown of Redmond.
Taking into account the cuts in July, Microsoft has shed 2,098 employees in and around Redmond, so far.
Other US locations were reportedly affected by Thursday's cuts, too, including Microsoft's Fargo, North Dakota campus, which works on Dynamics ERP, among other projects. The exact number of jobs cut in Fargo has not been disclosed, but that any were lost was something of a surprise, as Microsoft's Fargo site leader told North Dakota Senator John Hoeven in July that he wasn't expecting that campus to be affected.
Redmond-watcher Mary Jo Foley also received word that the company is closing its Microsoft Research laboratory in Mountain View, California. The lab currently employs around 50 researchers working on distributed computing projects.
Microsoft declined to comment on Thursday's layoffs, but if Nadella's earlier projections hold, we can expect at least one more round in the coming months.
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I’d be very happy if they fired the windows 8 team. They really deserve it.
Yer they scream about needing more HB-1 Visas.
The nation’s software security is inversely proportional to the number of Windoze POS systems out there.
That’s all we do in DOD is paying the price for choosing the world’s worst OS to run everything. Here world, we’ve chosen an OS which is accessible by every 10 year old hacker in the multiverse. Have a go.
Thankfully, for most of our REAL military stuff, Unix (or varients) are there to protect us from Gatescr*p.
That's the plan. The Indian jerk lays off all the "lazy white people" and hires his relatives back home.
They're packing now...
Life-long employment for deadwood — that’s the ticket to producing quality computer software!
Another way to look at the employees on visas — a successful American business is vacuuming the world for its top talent. Countries like India pay to educate their best and brightest, only to have the best and most motivated of the best snapped up by American tech businesses. Recall that the Soviets used to prohibit emigration to force their home-grown talent to stay at home.
Whether or not you approve, economic fundamentals favour globalization of markets — including labour markets. The U.S.A. has been, by far, the biggest beneficiary of globalization.
Oh, and BTW, there’s no mention of how many visa employees are being axed. I would guess that number is roughly proportionate to the overall numbers. It makes sense in a ultra-fast changing tech field — hire employees with the latest skills and knowledge, and let them go when their area of expertise becomes obsolete.
The worst thing that ever happened to the internet is Microsoft giving away "free" browsers that require hundreds of dollars of software to kinda sorta protect us from hacking.
That’s an unfortunate headline, considering the proliferation of real beheadings in the Middle East now.
It’s more than unfortunate. It’s downright wrong.
The 2100 is part of the 18,000 which they had announced originally that were going to be laid off.
The 18,000 would have been overhead, and were no longer needed when they got absorbed into Microsoft.
18,000 are a lot less layoffs than would’ve happened if Nokia had gone bankrupt and gone.
An anagram of Satya Nadella is “Satan Allayed”.
Allayed can mean “satisfied”.
By this time Windows should have looked like a sleek Apple design and Android with drag and drop icons by hand or mouse and have many themes and be able to run apps like those we see on the smartphones. Windows 8 was not even close.
2,100 fired while they are spending $2.5 billion buying up MINECRAFT, they already lost billions on Nokia.
maybe it is the top people who should be fired?
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