After too long no one remembers those gentle

Rumors Microsoft's job cuts have finally settled in Beijing yesterday night: the company plans to lay off 18,000 people in a year, of which the original Nokia Equipment and services department employs 12,500 people, accounting for 70% of the total number of layoffs.

The original Nokia equipment and services staff accounted for 40% of the total number of employees who joined Microsoft through the acquisition. Similar acquisitions are not uncommon in this year's downsizing. Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobile in the global cut of 20% of employees, the company's 94 office One-third was closed, the total number of layoffs to 4000 people, and Google's total staff still less than 50,000. Google then sold people and assets in addition to Moto X Laboratories to Lenovo Group. In 2010, when Hewlett-Packard completed its acquisition of EDS and 3COM, it also laid off 9000 people, adjusted the resource allocation and added 6,000 jobs.

Redundancy is the most direct and effective way to integrate people and resources after the completion of the company's acquisition, and to retain Nokia's beneficial market, design talent and core technicians and integrate it into the newly established Nokia Mobile with Microsoft's original Equipment department staff. Reduce other personnel to ensure the consistency and flexibility of the new company while at the same time relieving unnecessary costs. Prior to downsizing, Nokia N9 (whose styling has been used with Nokia variety of Windows Phone flagship devices) and Asha 501 (whose styling has been followed by Nokia X series), the design director Marko Ahtisaari did not join Microsoft with the acquisition, Lumia Ari Partinen, the PureView technology engineer at the heart of high-end smartphones, has also joined Apple imaging, and the rest of the executive and core technology departments are not yet clear about the changes.

According to Nadra in the open letter, the core reasons for the layoffs are two: the first is to simplify the old Microsoft decision system, so that the company management and action structure more flat, and the second is to adjust the Nokia equipment and service sector personnel to meet departmental integration and corporate strategy needs. At the same time, Barnard also mentioned that will change the Nokia X series product design, convert it into the existing, running WIndows Phone system Lumia series products.