Report: Microsoft preparing to lay off thousands of employees

Xbox divisions could be affected

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Even though Microsoft is doing well with its Xbox business, it appears that it's not invulnerable to layoffs. Bloomberg reports that the company is preparing its biggest round of employee dismissals since it let go 5,000 employees back in 2009. It appears that certain Xbox marketing teams may be affected by the move.

According to the report, a majority of the layoffs will probably be in Nokia, since Microsoft recently acquired it last April. Marketing and engineering divisions, including those involved with Xbox, could also see some cutbacks. Although restructuring details are still being formulated, the job cuts could occur "as soon as this week."

Microsoft had no comment on the matter, stating, "Microsoft does not comment on rumor or speculation." However, CEO Satya Nadella did send an open letter to Microsoft employees a while back, explaining the need for "significant" changes to engineering and organization within the company.

Robert Workman was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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    July 15, 2014 9:15 AM

    Robert Workman posted a new article, Report: Microsoft preparing to lay off thousands of employees.

    Xbox divisions could be affected

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      July 15, 2014 7:48 PM

      Mostly this will affect the Nokia purchased employees I think.

      It means that the knowledge transfer has been done and now it's time to lay off the poor former Nokia workers. There are almost 5000 of them that Microsoft got in the deal.

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        July 15, 2014 8:17 PM

        Kinda weird that Stephen Elop went from Business division head of Microsoft to CEO of Nokia to "Devices and Services" head of Microsoft.

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        July 15, 2014 9:04 PM

        pretty sure it's closer to 30,000

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      July 15, 2014 8:20 PM

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      July 15, 2014 8:34 PM

      "redundancies"

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      July 15, 2014 8:59 PM

      They need to fire everyone in marketing and start fresh, also fire whomever decided that zune software sucked and we needed xbox music

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      July 15, 2014 9:48 PM

      whoever put that shite of a GUI on a windows 2012 server needs to be first.

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