微軟再裁員2850人 進一步退出智能手機業務

Microsoft is cutting more jobs from its smartphone hardware and global sales divisions by shedding an additional 2,850 positions, the company said last Thursday.

微軟上週四宣佈，該公司將從其智能手機硬件、全球銷售部門再次裁員，再裁減2850個工作崗位。

The news came in a corporate annual report filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

消息來源是微軟向美國證券交易委員會提交的一份企業年度報告。

It noted the company had announced in May it was cutting 1,850 jobs and that the new cuts were "an extension of the earlier plan".

該報告指出，微軟曾於5月宣佈將裁員1850人，新一輪裁員是"先前計劃的擴充"。

The cuts are expected to be completed by the end of June 2017. As of late last month, Microsoft employed about 114,000 people.

此次裁員預計於2017年6月底之前完成。截至上個月，微軟公司共僱用了約114000人。

"As anticipated, our change in phone strategy resulted in a reduction in units sold and associated expenses in fiscal year 2016, and this trend is expected to continue in fiscal year 2017." the filing said.

該文件指出："正如預期的那樣，我們智能手機戰略的變化，導致了2016財年的銷售和相關費用的減少，這一趨勢預計在2017財年還會繼續下去。”

Microsoft purchased Nokia in 2013 in a bid to get a leg up in mobile. Nokia was the world's leading mobile phone maker from 1998 until 2011 when it bet on Microsoft's Windows mobile platform which proved to be a flop. The Finnish company sold its unprofitable handset unit in 2014 for some $7.2 billion to Microsoft.

微軟於2013年收購了諾基亞，力求在智能手機領域佔上風。諾基亞在1998年至2011年曾經是世界頂級手機制造商。隨後當其押注於微軟的Windows移動平臺，但最終被證明是失敗的。 這家芬蘭公司於2014年以72億美元的價格賣出了其虧損的手機業務。