One of the pending tasks that are being carried out in Microsoft It is the complete restructuring of the company, despite the fact that in the last fiscal quarter the company's numbers were quite good. Taking advantage of a presentation to the United States Securities Commission, the multinational announced a new round of layoffs where nothing less than 2.850 people will lose their job.
To this new round of layoffs must be added the 18.000 announced in 2014, the 7.800 in the mobile division in 2015 and the 1.850 layoffs that occurred in May of this year and which corresponded to positions in Finland of people who worked for Nokia. As you can see, everything seems to indicate that, after a long time and meetings, finally at Microsoft they seem to want to disengage and leave the mobile phone business behind.
Microsoft wants to leave the mobile phone business behind
Without a doubt, hardware is something that seems to be complicated for Microsoft people, a subject that requires a lot of investment and where profits take too long to arrive, especially if we compare it with services such as Azure and Office 365 where, despite that investment is also high, the truth is that there is better control of the operation at the same time that the gains are much greater and are achieved in a much shorter time.
Due to this, it is not surprising that the company has gradually disengaged from all the personnel who at the time worked for Nokia and even from the workers who were part of Microsoft's own mobile division. At this point, despite the fact that layoffs are very high, the truth is that the Redmond company, for now, has not officially announced the closure of the mobile division.
As a final detail, tell you that Microsoft expects to complete its restructuring at the end of 2017.
Further information: The Wall Street Journal