With a month to go until the end of Microsoft's fiscal year, the executive shuffles continue in the Windows business.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella unveiled a huge shift in a March 29 memo that revealed a reorganization whose headline departure would be the head of the Windows and Devices Group and longtime Microsoft veteran Terry Myerson. Myerson was to stay at Microsoft for a while to help with the transition.
The reorg was widely viewed as Nadella demoting Windows, the longtime centerpiece of Microsoft's strategy, to further emphasize artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing and mixed reality.
To execute on the strategy, Nadella formed two new engineering units. One was Experiences & Devices, led by Corporate Vice President Rajesh Jha. The other was Cloud + AI Platform, led by Scott Guthrie, head of Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise.
All About Microsoft's Mary Jo Foley reported Thursday that the executive moves, even among those specifically named as continuing their positions in the March memo, are not finished.
Kudo Tsunoda is out as corporate vice president for Next Gen Experiences, Foley reported. Tsunoda had reported to Jha and was focused on mixed reality, 3-D, story remix, photos, HoloLens and other related projects. Foley reported that Tsunoda is looking for another role inside the company and the team has been disbanded and moved to other places.
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Microsoft Says It’s True: Cat Videos Distract Workers | Latest News
Economists have been confused in recent years with the so- "Productivity paradox", the fact that the digital revolution of the last four decades has not produced a large increase in production per worker, as was the case with previous technological upheavals. Many developed economies have actually experienced stagnation or declining productivity.
Microsoft Corp. reinforces one theory of this disconnection. According to a survey of 20,000 European workers released Monday, Microsoft, which has become one of the most profitable companies in the world through office product marketing software, recognizes that new digital technologies can sometimes lead to increased employee involvement in their work.
Microsoft-based Redmond, Washington, is acceding to the growing number of Silicon Valley companies and businesses that are beginning to question the social benefits of the technology they once backed. Facebook Inc. in December, warned that her social network could in some cases cause psychological harm.
Microsoft identifies a few instances where technology can be a barrier to productivity, including: workers who are too distracted by a constant tide of emails, Slack News, Trello Alerts, Texts, Tweets - not to mention viral cat videos - focus for lasting periods; workers who are not properly trained in the efficient use of new technology; tech, which is not sufficiently supported by businesses, forcing workers to waste time because "computers are on the ground" and workers who suffer from burns because they feel inclined to work with mobile devices and homework - --clock.
Of course, Microsoft does not say that technology dampens productivity in all cases. Instead, it is said that the impact of technology depends heavily on the business culture. Those who have "strong digital culture" have seen productivity gains from technology, while those called "weak digital culture" by Microsoft have not done so.
Microsoft-defined companies with a strong digital culture, such as those in which employees were properly trained in new technologies, access to information, managers who supported the introduction of new technologies, and where managers informed employees about how technology is involved in society strategic vision.
In such businesses, about 22 percent of employees said they felt highly productive and only about 5 percent said they were unproductive, compared with only 12 percent saying they were highly productive and 21 percent felt unproductive in companies, which have a weak digital culture. Authors of the study said that even 22 percent of reported high productivity "suggests that there is more work to be done to help each employee do the best work."
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