Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it cut about 3,000 jobs, effectively completing its plan to reduce its workforce by 18,000, or 14 percent of total staff, announced in July.<\/p>\n
The majority of the 18,000 job cuts were in the phone handset business Microsoft acquired from Nokia earlier this year.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve taken another step that will complete almost all the 18,000 reductions announced in July,” said a Microsoft spokesman. “The reductions happening today are spread across many different business units and many different countries.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said 638 of Wednesday’s cuts were in Microsoft’s home state of Washington, where it has its Redmond headquarters.<\/p>\n
Microsoft, the world’s largest software company, will have about 110,000 employees once the job reductions are completed. It took a charge of $1.1 billion in its latest quarterly earnings report for the restructuring and integration of the Nokia phone operation and associated job cuts.<\/p>\n
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