TapTechNews July 5th news, according to Leifeng.com report, recently, many Microsoft Cloud China employees have successively received company mails asking them to leave as soon as possible, and even some employees were asked to leave within 1 month.
According to insiders, this round of layoffs is mainly in the sales positions, involving more than 80 people, accounting for about 10% of the total number of the sales team. The hard-hit area of layoffs is concentrated in the EC (EnterpriseCommercial) department. The reason may be that the traditional thinking and practice of the department accustomed to selling CDs and selling licenses have failed to keep up with the market demand in the cloud computing era, and downsizing may be inevitable.
It is rumored that the compensation for this round is N+2. Many people in the industry feedback that among the three foreign-funded clouds, Microsoft's compensation standard is often in the middle, usually higher than that of AWS but lower than that of Google Cloud.
The media once reported on June 20th that Microsoft Cloud China may conduct a relatively large organizational structure adjustment around the end of the fiscal year 2024 (around the end of June this year), and the adjustment objects mainly focus on the more than 700-person sales team led by Hou Yang in the Greater China region.
According to several insiders, the adjustment method may be: Among the sales lines in various subdivided industries, small teams with similar functions are integrated together to reduce the communication inefficiency and operational inefficiency caused by multiple docking and scattered operations.
TapTechNews noticed that in addition to the domestic market, Microsoft has also been frequently exposed to overseas market layoffs recently, including the Xbox department, the African Development Center in Nigeria (more than 200 employees were laid off), the mixed reality department, etc.
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