14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella will again have to answer difficult questions regarding the company’s future, this time in a meeting with analysts and investors as part of Redmond’s financial results conference scheduled for July 22.
Nadella is expected to detail the job cuts he announced last week and provide more information on the changes he plans to make to the company just after he announces the latest quarterly earnings on Tuesday.
In a statement for Financial Times, Michael Cusumano, a professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, explains that despite the 18,000 job loss, Microsoft’s layoff isn’t anything else than a big step forward, which must be followed by other similar moves in the future.
“Microsoft has been bloated for 20 years, they have way more people in their product groups than they need,” he was quoted as saying. “There’s still a long way to go even after these cuts.”
Nadella’s proposed job cut is said to affect every single division within the company, including the Windows unit which is very likely to lose a number of testers as part of an internal reorganization.
At the same time, the company is also closing some plants belonging to Nokia and killing a number of projects, including the Nokia X mobile phone model that was running Android.