According to foreign media reports, Wednesday as Nokia announce “adjust and consolidate global branch” news, the history of the most massive layoffs began sweeping. It is learnt that the Nokia plans
Lay off 7,000 employees, of which 4,000 participants from research and Development Department. In addition, Nokia also will work with aizhesen (Accenture), Symbian software development including its 3,000 employees transferred to
Aizhesen. The Nokia internal memo disclosed (Nokia internal memo) describes in detail its restructuring.
Following is the full text of the memorandum:
Symbian and Meego sectors were affected by the layoffs the biggest impact, because Nokia has announced its Symbian software development work will be outsourced to Accenture, will have more than 3,000 employees transferred to Accenture. Things
On the real, this action has long been threatened, as early as February of this year Nokia’s new CEO shidifen·ailuopu (Stephen Elop) announced that it will use Microsoft’s WP7 appeared to take shape when the operating system.
In the Memorandum published in Nokia wrote “our target is the Symbian related research and development of systems and services to Accenture customers of other mobile services in the context of Accenture continue. In addition, promise
Jiya Symbian system research and development will be gradually reduced and slowly end, this is done so that Nokia can in Windows
Phone platforms have a higher degree of flexibility. After 2013, Saipan sector will be more focused on remaining on the market of product-related maintenance work. ”
For being seen as Meego of Symbian successor system, the same could not escape the fate of layoffs. It is reported that Nokia plans will Meego most business terminated in late June 2012.
Wrote in a memorandum: “Windows Phone has begun to gradually carry out operations, most of the departments of architecture will be in place before the end of 2011, our goal is to from Symbian and Meego and other departments deploy to as many people as possible to support the work of Windows Phone sector.
The MeeGo team, Meltemi (Windows Phone at Nokia code) sector will also bring many opportunities for their personal development. ”
Although Nokia not publicly announced, but the cuts 1000 jobs will come from the mobile phone sector (Mobile
Phones), S30 and S40 phones that research and Development Department. In addition, the shidifen·ailuopu also says “Nokia to be restructured into three vertical sectors, that is marketing, smart devices and the mobile phone sector, Nokia North
Scale of the Beijing Office will be expanded. ”
Internal memorandum also confirmed that Nokia United Kingdom Farnborough (Farnborough) de choisy, near wood (Southwood) Office will close before the end of 2012, while closing
Closed-also located in United Kingdom Symbian system headquarters before the Boundary of the Row, and Saipan in the Friar ‘ s
House offices. In addition, Nokia is likely to look for Office building of relatively inexpensive rents in greater London area to be used for marketing and operational services.
It is worth mentioning is that Nokia only in recent years on their own in de choisy, wood’s estate, Friar ‘ s luxury decoration of the House and Soho area office. It is reported that de choisy, wood’s area office decor spent 8 million pounds to the Friar to enhance their Symbian system image ‘ s Office of the House decoration is also consumed an estimated 1.2 million pounds.
In response, said Nokia “Nokia Design Center in Central London would remain our United Kingdom composed of important market sectors”.
According to the memorandum shows layoffs were inevitable results of Nokia to consolidate research and development work, and layoff candidates is concentration and is based on the existing departments of the company from the vendor to determine the distance.
Specific information:
Windows Phone smart phone Office: Beijing, sarotherodon melanotheron, Santiago and Tampere; Helsinki/Espoo, the Office will focus on application development.
Mobile phone product research and development: Beijing, Oulu and Ulm; application services framework (ASF) research and development sites.
CTO of advanced equipment locations: Helsinki/Espoo, and Sunnyvale.
We are assessing the services team will go into the business, but does not include the kelule area, we plan to close the offices in the region.
Detailed site information:
Denmark: we plan to cut 950 jobs in Copenhagen about this regional office from fiscal 2011 quarter to 2012 fiscal fourth quarter and gradually downsized until the end product development activities, including research and development, purchasing and product management functions, local sales department will be retained.
Finland: we will not close any Office, but in Helsinki/Espoo,, Office layoffs of 1400 people in Tampere, and Oulu, sarotherodon melanotheron, layoffs will come mainly from Symbian and MeeGo departments, the layoffs will be completed before the end of 2012 gradually. In addition, Finland most Symbian in research and development work will be transferred to Accenture as planned.
India: plan in the Bangalore office departments to cut 300 jobs, services and research and development work is continuing with this, most of the Symbian software research and development work in this area will be transferred to Accenture as planned …
North America: plan in the North American Office 500 job cuts, most of them have laid off from San Diego and White Plains. In White Plains, Nokia’s operational activities will be gradually transferred, or reduced regulation
Mode, the end of 2012 will end completely. In addition to account management team, all North American sales
Sector and related activities will be transferred to Sunnyvale, Sunnyvale will then gradually become the core of Nokia’s sales and marketing activities in North America Office. At present, we are assessing the United States offices of Symbian software development
And the planned transfer to Accenture.
Romania: all in the kelule area of research and development program terminated at the end of 2011, factories in the area of business will remain unchanged, number of expected layoffs to 120 people.
Nokia’s internal memorandum also showed this:
1. the scale of the Beijing Office will continue to expand and become the core of S30, S40 phone research and development areas.
2. the Oulu region will become the core feature phones and Window Phone research and development areas.
3. Heaulme will continue to expand in scale and gradually become the core areas of research and development of feature phones, and Meltemi.
4. in the Helsinki/Espoo, area, Smartphone plans to expand the ASF team (application framework) scale to better support the Meltemi projects software development work.
Text/Sohu IT
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