Microsoft to Axe 2, 850 More Jobs

Microsoft plans to cut 2, 850 more jobs, adding to the formerly disclosed job cuts as it restructures its sales operation and shuts down its mobile phone hardware business division.

The software company announced the latest lay-off in a filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday.

A spokesperson said that nine hundred of the job cuts in the global sales division have already been done. Microsoft is projecting the remaining 1, 950 cuts to be completed by 2017. Jobs in the sales organization and mobile phone division will be included in the cuts. The most recent cuts comes after the 1, 850 layoffs in the phone unit disclosed in May.

The job cuts are part of a reorganization that came after COO Kevin Turner's departure from Microsoft, leading to the restructuring of the sales group by Chief Executive Satya Nadella.

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