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Microsoft: new layoffs in the mobile division | reports

The cuts to the Microsoft's mobile division staff continue affecting the structures that operate in Finland. This is confirmed by a recent report of the authoritative Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat. The source does not quantify in detail the consistency of the layoffs, but makes general reference to measures that affect "tens" of employees, many of whom work in the management of marketing activities.

For reference, it shows a further contribution to reconstruct the story from Mary Jo Foley of ZDnet: new staff cuts, as confirmed to Foley from a Microsoft spokesperson add up to 7800 redundancies announced in July 2015 and would not be they included. Microsoft had already put in place a program for the reorganization of corporate structures located in Finland during 2015, choosing, among other things, to close its plant in Salo, the past on several occasions to the honors of the record for being one of the historic sites production of Nokia.



The news of the new cuts to staff the mobile division, unfortunately, is not surprising: in the last fiscal quarter of Microsoft's mobile division has only sold 4.5 million Lumia smartphones - sales volumes that coincide with those at the end of 2012 ago when a manage the business of the terminals was Nokia Lumia.
Also worrying contraction of annualized sales quantified in 49% (figure for the quarter includes the months of October, November and December 2015). The difficult situation could continue in the next fiscal quarter according to analysts not particularly optimistic about the resumption of sales, especially in light of the choice of the Redmond to rationalize the catalog by reducing the number of models - a measure that led to the cancellation of projects previously initiated.

Formally the new layoffs can be traced to the work of reorganization of the Microsoft corporate structures arising from the acquisition of the mobile division of Nokia. In fact, it appears that this reorganization is handling a very wide time range - the conclusion of the sales procedure took place at the end of April 2014 - in the meantime, the smartphone business has never managed to take off as hoped.

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