Microsoft on Thursday sacked 34 (85 per cent) of the 40 employees in the Nigerian office of its phone division.
The sacking came 24 hours after the company’s latest......
Windows 10 was made available in Nigeria and 189 other countries.
Although, Windows 10 is now available as a
free upgrade for Windows 7 and 8.1 operating systems or with new
personal computers and tablets, industry experts said it would leave
about 15 million Nigerian payments cards prone to hacking.
Employees at the Nigerian office were
silent on the matter, but a source said that the downsizing was part of
the global decision of Microsoft to streamline its phone division.
The source said the sacking was in line
with the massive layoff of workers “sweeping through the global offices
of Microsoft’s phone division.”
The Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft,
Satya Nadella, had said in a memo to all Nigerian employees in late June
that the company needed to make some “tough choices” in areas that were
not working.
The memo had stated that 7,800 jobs would be cut from the mobile division working on Windows Phone hardware.
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