According to the source, Microsoft is conducting another reorganization, which can lead to a reduction in thousands of jobs. First of all, layoffs will affect sales professionals. The fact is that the company is reoriented from sales of boxed products to sales of cloud services Azure.

What specific units and local offices will be affected - is still unknown.

Also, there is no information as to whether the reorganization of the unit that produces Surface devices. The beginning of the year was quite successful for him, but then sales fell by 26%. The company explained this by the growing competition and moral obsolescence of the current line of devices. Since then, the Surface Pro and Surface Laptop models have been introduced, which, perhaps, will fix the situation.

We add that now the company employs approximately 121 500 employees.