Mobile telephone manufacturer Nokia plans to cut 700 jobs in Finland. Most of the redundancies are to be enacted by the end of the year.
The international economic crisis has reduced sales of telephones so much that the company’s personnel director Juha Äkäräs feels that cost-cutting measures are needed both in Finland and abroad.
“All cuts will be implemented so that we can also invest in the future. We will seek to make wise strategic choices with which to secure our competitiveness in the short and long terms”, Äkräs says.
In January Nokia estimated that sales of mobile telephones this year would decline by ten per cent from last year. It means a reduction in sales worth more than 100 million handsets.
Trimming product development activities in Finland was not unexpected. Nokia Research and Development employs 14,700 people worldwide, 8,850 of whom are working in Finland.
The company aims to cut operation costs by EUR 700 million by the end of next year. To this end, the selection of models has been streamlined, subcontracting has been reduced, corporate travel has been trimmed, and pay increases have been frozen.
Last autumn Nokia took on over 1,000 new employees when it bought the programming company Symbian.
In other countries, Nokia is cutting 1,000 jobs mainly in the marketing and strategy unit. The greatest number of jobs will be lost in the United States and Britain.
The international economic crisis has reduced sales of telephones so much that the company’s personnel director Juha Äkäräs feels that cost-cutting measures are needed both in Finland and abroad.
“All cuts will be implemented so that we can also invest in the future. We will seek to make wise strategic choices with which to secure our competitiveness in the short and long terms”, Äkräs says.
In January Nokia estimated that sales of mobile telephones this year would decline by ten per cent from last year. It means a reduction in sales worth more than 100 million handsets.
Trimming product development activities in Finland was not unexpected. Nokia Research and Development employs 14,700 people worldwide, 8,850 of whom are working in Finland.
The company aims to cut operation costs by EUR 700 million by the end of next year. To this end, the selection of models has been streamlined, subcontracting has been reduced, corporate travel has been trimmed, and pay increases have been frozen.
Last autumn Nokia took on over 1,000 new employees when it bought the programming company Symbian.
In other countries, Nokia is cutting 1,000 jobs mainly in the marketing and strategy unit. The greatest number of jobs will be lost in the United States and Britain.
( Retirado do jornal HELSINGIN SANOMAT - 18.03.09 )
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