Microsoft confirms plans to cut 18'000 jobs in cost plan

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walsufnir on 17 July 2014

Nettles said:
So this is all in their entertainment division or elsewhere also?

12,5 for Nokia employees.

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sales2099 on 17 July 2014

Damn that sucks. Well at least it's because MS is employing too many people with the Nokia overlap with WIndows phone division as opposed to cutting jobs to stem losses

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BreedinBull on 17 July 2014

18k is insane if true.

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EpicRandy on 17 July 2014

that's sad for those who lost their jobs.

At the end they will still have 7k to 8k more worker than they had in the beginning of 2014.
Ironically the year they've made the biggest cut of their history is probably also the year they saw the biggest growth of employees.

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binary solo on 17 July 2014

12% of the total workforce is huge! And 12.5k being from Nokia must be damned close to every former Nokia employee.

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