Rehabilitation process shuffling cellular giant 4,000-firing will focus on Windows Phone 7 devices
Thousands of Nokia Corporation's employees are to go home. This morning the company announced plans for redeployment of its workforce, which will include layoffs of some 4,000 (out of about 130 thousand workers) by the end of 2012. Most jobs will be canceled both base company in Finland in its branches in England and Denmark. In addition, the company transfers all the Symbian operating system activities, including the 3000 employees involved in the matter, the company Accenture. This, in turn, Nokia will provide software services to its Unlocked phones. Nokia aims to reduce its costs in equipment and services in billion euros by 2013 and invest more resources in producing handsets based on Windows operating system Microsoft Phone 7. The company intends to isolate the research departments of its product development and make that "each of them a clear role and mission will be clear." Nokia said the reductions will take place in stages, employees have been dismissed will continue to be paid by the end of 2011. "This is a harsh reality, and we are working in cooperation with our partners laid-off workers find re-employment programs", said CEO Stephen Champion, adding that "we now have clarity about our way forward, focused on market leadership in smart devices and mobile phones." Current operating system for Nokia - Symbian - is failing and one can not properly handle the current smartphones market. Posted two months ago, Nokia CEO's letter, which did not spare descriptions of the difficult situation which the company was criticized for its performance in recent years and compare it to a man standing on the burning soil. This letter has prepared the ground for the declaration of cooperation with Microsoft, signed the final week last. That week also released quarterly figures for Nokia, presented a further decline in revenue forecast for next quarter pessimistic.
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