TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Microsoft will likely be laying off thousands of its employees worldwide in an attempt to reorganize its sales group, as reported by Techcrunch on Monday, July 3, 2017.

A source at the technology-focused news outlet reported that the giant tech corporation will be laying off its employees as a direct effect of the company’s restructuration plans which will see them conduct an organizational merger that involves its enterprise customer unit and one or more of its SME-focused divisions.

Earlier this week, Puget Sound Business Journal, Bloomberg and The Seattle Times, reported that Microsoft’s massive layoff is directly related to the company’s strategy in focusing towards cloud services within Microsoft’s sales teams worldwide. It would be the most significant redundancies in the company’s sales force in years, according to Bloomberg.

The reorganization is a direct result of last year’s change of leadership. Executives Judson Althoff and Jean-Philippe Courtois supervised Microsoft’s sales and marketing divisions following the exit of long-serving COO Kevin Turner last year.

Althoff is known to have openly criticized the approach of previous sales strategies.

According to the Seattle Times, Microsoft announced last year that it would layoff 2,850 of its workers which also includes 900 from its sales group. Two months previously, the company announced that they would be laying off 1,850 employees in its smartphone business.

TECHCRUNCH | ERWIN Z