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Microsoft Nokia Cuts

Microsoft announces 2,100 job cuts as part of plan to reduce workforce by 14%

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By Ishbel Macleod, PR and social media consultant

September 19, 2014 | 1 min read

Microsoft has made another 2,100 reductions to its workforce, following an announcement in July that “strategic cuts” would be made in areas such as marketing and engineering.

So far 13,000 of the planned 18,000 cuts have been made, with the majority of these coming from the Nokia division bought over by Microsoft.

According to a statement by Microsoft, the latest cuts "are spread across many different business units, and many different countries".

Earlier this week (Tuesday, 16 September), Microsoft appointed Teri List-Stoll, former EVP and chief financial officer of Kraft Foods, and Charles W. Scharf, chief executive officer of Visa, to the company’s board of directors.

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