Nokia Cutting 300 Jobs in IT Division
Finnish phone manufacturer outsourcing 820 employees.
Struggling Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia has announced that it's cutting 300 jobs in its IT department.
As well as making 300 employees redundant, the phone maker will transfer 820 of its current employees to external technology consultancies. The majority of the cuts will be made in Finland, where it's headquartered.
Nokia said those being laid off will be offered to participate in the Bridge program, which sees former employees starting their own company or continuing with external projects.
"Nokia believes these changes will increase operational efficiency and reduce operating costs creating an IT organization appropriate for Nokia’s current size and scope," it said.
Nokia, which recently confirmed it sold 86.3 million phones and 4.4 million Lumia smartphone units during Q4, is selling its head office in Finland for $222 million.
Also laid offs where focused on IT-department e.g. support operations, not for example R&D.
Less people, less to support.
In the end all that creep Elop did was not getting "the firm back on track through Windows partnership" but through cost cutting, destruction of Nokia's native IP and massive job loss.
If I was shareholder I'd have hung him on the highest tree in Finland with his head on a stake on the highest mountain!
It's interesting to hear about their "Bridge" program--wonder how much resources are made available from this program to the employees they're letting go. I always have so much more respect for companies that do these sorts of things.
customer care update the firmware again same problem raise in 4~6 days . so I'm move to samsung now.
Screw whatever deal you have with Microsoft, Nokia. You NEED Android phones, it doesn't matter how good people say WP8 is, obviously it's not enough for Nokia.