Quoting from the site wsj.com Posted by:Dr Ahmed.M.Shaban Stephen Elop European Photopress Agency Microsoft MSFT +1.02% on Thursday said it plans to eliminate up to 18,000 jobs , or 14% of its work force, in a bid to streamline the company following the acquisition of Nokia 's devices and services business. Last week, CEO Satya Nadella hinted at the organizational changes to come in a long memo, and announced the job cuts in a new email today . Executive Vice President Stephen Elop , who had been Nokia’s CEO before the acquisition, provided more detail on the shake-up, including he consolidation of business units and changes to where the group’s engineering and manufacturing work is done. Here is the full text of his email, posted to Microsoft’s website . Hello there, Microsoft’s strategy is focused on productivity and our desire to help people “do more.” As the Microsoft Devices Group, our role is to light up this strategy for people. We ar
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