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Tarkvarafirma Microsoft teatas täna, et koondab ligi 14 protsenti töötajatest ehk 18 000 inimest.

Suurem osa koondamistest viiakse läbi Nokialt üle võetud mobiiliüksuses, mille töötajaskond kahaneb 12 500 inimese võrra, vahendas BBC.

Loe edasi ERR Uudistest.
Ametlik pressiteade: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2014/jul14/07-17pressrelease.aspx

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Siia juurde peaks sobima ka Satya Nadella kiri:

Starting to Evolve Our Organization and Culture
July 17, 2014

From: Satya Nadella

To: All Employees

Date: July 17, 2014 at 5:00 a.m. PT

Subject: Starting to Evolve Our Organization and Culture

Last week in my email to you I synthesized our strategic direction as a productivity and platform company. Having a clear focus is the start of the journey, not the end. The more difficult steps are creating the organization and culture to bring our ambitions to life. Today I’ll share more on how we’re moving forward. On July 22, during our public earnings call, I’ll share further specifics on where we are focusing our innovation investments.

The first step to building the right organization for our ambitions is to realign our workforce. With this in mind, we will begin to reduce the size of our overall workforce by up to 18,000 jobs in the next year. Of that total, our work toward synergies and strategic alignment on Nokia Devices and Services is expected to account for about 12,500 jobs, comprising both professional and factory workers. We are moving now to start reducing the first 13,000 positions, and the vast majority of employees whose jobs will be eliminated will be notified over the next six months. It’s important to note that while we are eliminating roles in some areas, we are adding roles in certain other strategic areas. My promise to you is that we will go through this process in the most thoughtful and transparent way possible. We will offer severance to all employees impacted by these changes, as well as job transition help in many locations, and everyone can expect to be treated with the respect they deserve for their contributions to this company.

Later today your Senior Leadership Team member will share more on what to expect in your organization. Our workforce reductions are mainly driven by two outcomes: work simplification as well as Nokia Devices and Services integration synergies and strategic alignment.

First, we will simplify the way we work to drive greater accountability, become more agile and move faster. As part of modernizing our engineering processes the expectations we have from each of our disciplines will change. In addition, we plan to have fewer layers of management, both top down and sideways, to accelerate the flow of information and decision making. This includes flattening organizations and increasing the span of control of people managers. In addition, our business processes and support models will be more lean and efficient with greater trust between teams. The overall result of these changes will be more productive, impactful teams across Microsoft. These changes will affect both the Microsoft workforce and our vendor staff. Each organization is starting at different points and moving at different paces.

Second, we are working to integrate the Nokia Devices and Services teams into Microsoft. We will realize the synergies to which we committed when we announced the acquisition last September. The first-party phone portfolio will align to Microsoft’s strategic direction. To win in the higher price tiers, we will focus on breakthrough innovation that expresses and enlivens Microsoft’s digital work and digital life experiences. In addition, we plan to shift select Nokia X product designs to become Lumia products running Windows. This builds on our success in the affordable smartphone space and aligns with our focus on Windows Universal Apps.

Making these decisions to change are difficult, but necessary. I want to invite you to my monthly Q&A event tomorrow. I hope you can join, and I hope you will ask any question that’s on your mind. Thank you for your support as we start to take steps forward in evolving our organization and culture.

Satya

[Max Powers]

Soomlased šokis: riigis kaotab töö 1100 Nokia töötajat
http://arileht.delfi.ee/news/uudised/soomlased-sokis-riigis-kaotab-too-1100-nokia-tootajat.d?id=69374647
Mikko Lintunen on Microsofti usaldusisik ning ta kommenteeris Ilta-Lehtile, et Microsofti otsus koondada Soomes 1100 töötajat on talle suur šokk

[dksvertix]

On riike, kus töökohakaotus on tõesti tähtis teema, kuna riik on evolutsioonikäigus arenenud hoolima oma rahvusest. Ja on Eesti laadsed riigid...

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Miks siis alguses nokia ostma pidid? Et nüüd lõplikult pinnalt kustutada?

Muidu need lumiad ka suurem asi ei ole nii et ei imesta, et vallandavad. Alates fööni välimusest kuni tarkvarani on üsna häiriv. Need nõmedad kuubikud igalpool

[arm2004]

[Betamax]

Ega see koondamine eriti libedalt neil ei lähe. Soomlased pole seda tüüpi nagu eestlased, et lähevad koju patja nutma. Ametiühing on seal üpris võimas.

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[arm2004]

võib tegelikult öelda, et me ei ei saanud oma Nokia-t, aga nad said oma Eesti
ja olgem ausad, Soome tegelikult on rohkem Balti riik kui Skandinaavia riik - kõik oleme suure Napoleoni-kompleksi käes vaevleva ipi naabrid. ja üks hetk see Soome senine heaoluühiskond kukub kokku, see omakorda avab eelmainitud ipile ukse ("tulen ja lähen kuidas tahan, pole ju NATO")...

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Veel juttu ja veel üks kiri järgmisel lingil:

Microsoft layoffs: Operating systems group chief Myerson's memo to the troops

Summary: The day after Microsoft's announcement that it will lay off 18,000 employees, more specifics are coming into focus, including information about what's happening in the Operating Systems Group.

Edasi lingil:
http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-layoffs-operating-systems-group-chief-myersons-memo-to-the-troops-7000031774/

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