Microsoft to Cut Up to 4,000 Sales and Marketing Jobs<br />The sales and marketing changes, Mr. Althoff wrote, were intended to “enable us to align the right resources for the right customer at the right time.” Key areas of opportunity, he said, included expanding its cloud offerings in data analysis<br />and artificial intelligence, and helping companies in every industry to become digital businesses, using Microsoft tools.<br />By STEVE LOHRJULY 6, 2017<br />Microsoft is overhauling its big sales and marketing organization in a move that will cut 3,000 to 4,000 jobs, mostly outside the United States.<br />Last week, Microsoft described a sweeping realignment of its sales and marketing arm, which employs about 50,000 people worldwide.<br />In an internal email last week, Judson Althoff, a Microsoft executive vice president, described the reorganization and its rationale.
