Up to 6,000 jobs would be threatened at Nokia in Finland after the alliance with the U.S. Microsoft, said, Monday, February 14 to Agence France-Presse, the leader of a large Finnish union. "In the worst scenario, there could be 6,000 job losses. I think the more realistic figure is between 3000 and 4000," said Antti Rinne, chairman of the Union of Salaried Employees (TU), which has about 130 000 people.
Nokia, whose market share has plummeted over the past two years, currently employs approximately 20,000 people in Finland, for a global workforce of 132,000 people for the worldwide mobile phones. To try to counter the rise of Apple and Google in U.S. markets, Nokia said Friday it would use its "smartphone" ("smart phones") operating system for mobile Microsoft Windows phone.
R & D MOST AFFECTED Its new CEO, Canadian Stephen Elop said that there would be job cuts "substantial" in Tech Buzz News and Finland. Research and development group, working on specific operating systems, Nokia (Symbian and MeeGo), should largely pay for this new policy. "People are very worried, they know that the whole system is changed.
They understood that they will not all be able to keep their jobs," says Rinne. If confirmed, layoffs should occur "June or July" according him. 1 500 jobs at subcontractors may also bear the brunt of the restructuring of Nokia, said the unionist. The announcement of layoffs coming from Nokia, the flagship of the Nordic country of 5.3 million people, has attracted protests from Helsinki, who denounced "the greatest structural change" hitting the Finnish technology sector. 
Nokia, whose market share has plummeted over the past two years, currently employs approximately 20,000 people in Finland, for a global workforce of 132,000 people for the worldwide mobile phones. To try to counter the rise of Apple and Google in U.S. markets, Nokia said Friday it would use its "smartphone" ("smart phones") operating system for mobile Microsoft Windows phone.
R & D MOST AFFECTED Its new CEO, Canadian Stephen Elop said that there would be job cuts "substantial" in Tech Buzz News and Finland. Research and development group, working on specific operating systems, Nokia (Symbian and MeeGo), should largely pay for this new policy. "People are very worried, they know that the whole system is changed.
They understood that they will not all be able to keep their jobs," says Rinne. If confirmed, layoffs should occur "June or July" according him. 1 500 jobs at subcontractors may also bear the brunt of the restructuring of Nokia, said the unionist. The announcement of layoffs coming from Nokia, the flagship of the Nordic country of 5.3 million people, has attracted protests from Helsinki, who denounced "the greatest structural change" hitting the Finnish technology sector.
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