About a week ago Nokia has signed a contract with Microsoft, and now the company plans to restructure its business and refocusing on the Smartphone. That seems to be the main reason that the company intends to cut about 7,000 jobs next year.
3,000 workers (mainly from China, Finland and India) will be transferred to outsourcing and consultancy group Accenture, what happens on the acquisition of Nokia Symbian software and 4,000 jobs worldwide will be cut (especially in Britain, Denmark and Finland).
Approximately 132,400 persons in the Nokia last year, including those who work in 58,600 operations equipment and services, so these tasks make up about 5 percent of the 7,000 Nokia's global workforce.
Stephen Elop, former CEO of Microsoft, who joined Nokia as the Chief Executive in September, earlier said that some reduction of employment were expected in Nokia: "with this new focus, we will also reductions in our workforce."
"This is a difficult reality, and we work closely with our employees and partners to the long-term programmes talented people Nokia will lose," he added.
It seems that with these actions that it tries to restore his Nokia lost market share in Apple and HTC. Will it work? Nobody knows. He says the job cuts will save the company 1 billion euros (1.46 billion dollars) in operating costs until 2013, the rest will be announced shortly.
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