Microsoft is cutting thousands of jobs (MSFT)
Microsoft is cutting about 10% of its global sales force, the company announced on Thursday.
With around 50,000 people in the Microsoft sales organization, that's roughly 5,000 jobs affected. CNBC reports that the number is closer to 3,000.
These layoffs are the result of a corporate reorganization at Microsoft announced earlier this week, which sees the company's global sales force refocus its efforts on selling cloud computing services.
The layoffs primarily affect the sales organization, but also affected employees in some associated teams like finance and legal, says a person close to the company. That person also says that this will be the only round of layoffs following this particular restructuring.
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