欲减轻诺基亚拖累，微软再次裁员2,850人

数天前，微软在一份向监管部门递交的文件中表示，公司计划在今年五月宣布的裁员1,850人的基础上，额外再裁掉2,850名员工。

也就是说，截止到2017财年结束前，微软累计将在全球范围内裁掉4,700个职位。

微软表示，此次裁员将主要集中在其智能手机硬件业务和全球销售部门。

2014年，微软以76亿美元的价格收购了诺基亚公司的移动手持设备及服务业务。这笔交易最初是在2013年宣布的，当时微软的CEO还是史蒂夫·鲍默。

然而自从此次收购后，微软始终难以振兴它从诺基亚继承的智能手机业务。

微软在递交给监管机构的这份文件中称，2015年6月，微软曾宣布要从智能手机业务部门削减7,400个工作岗位。去年6月，微软又表示要进行76亿美元的资产减值计提，以弥补收购诺基亚手机业务造成的损失。

去年微软宣布裁员时，福雷斯特研究公司的分析师弗兰克·吉列特就曾对《财富》记者鲍尔布·达罗指出：“诺基亚在无人看好Windows Phone的时候成功说服微软进入了硬件领域，而且它的收购价格还是太高了。”

现在，随着微软的智能手机部门大量裁员，看来微软正在试图从硬件业务上脱身。

作者：Jonathan Vanian

译者：朴成奎

The business technology giant said in a regulatory filing on Thursday that it plans to lay off an additional 2,850 workers to the previously announced 1,850 jobs it said it would slash in May.

In total, Microsoft will cut 4,700 jobs worldwide by the end of the company’s fiscal year 2017.

Microsoft said that the job cuts will mainly target its smartphone hardware business and global sales unit.

In 2014, Microsoft bought the mobile handset and services business from Nokia Corporation for $7.6 billion. The deal was originally announced in 2013 when Microsoft was led by then-CEO Steve Ballmer.

Ever since the acquisition, Microsoft 0.84% has had a difficult time growing the struggling smartphone business it inherited.

In June 2015, Microsoft announced it would cut 7,400 jobs from the smartphone business unit, the regulatory filing said. Additionally, Microsoft said last June that it would record an impairment charge of roughly $7.6 billion related to the Nokia business unit acquisition.

Forrester Research analyst Frank Gillett told Fortune’s Barb Darrow at the time of last year’s job cuts, “Nokia got Microsoft into the hardware business where no one was betting on Windows Phone, but at a steep price.”

Now with so many jobs being eliminated from the smartphone unit, it seems like Microsoft is trying get out of that hardware business.