RIM was forced to lay off one in nine jobs – update

BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion is going to 2000 jobs, more than ten percent of the total number of jobs. It is still unknown whether there are forced redundancies, but since the number is likely to be.

Monday, Research In Motion announced that the this week employees whose jobs disappear will inform. In total disappear 2000 jobs, which represents 11 percent of the total number of employees. Or there are people forced to be discharged, remains unclear. In any case, is also moved positions in the upper management layer.

At the presentation of its quarterly results in June, RIM announced that the staff of the avenue from would send, but then it came to the company still no numbers to call. The Canadian smartphonefabrikant is struggling with a failing sales due to increased competition from Android-powered smartphones and the iPhone. In the second quarter of this year decreased the profit of RIM. This amounted to 695 million dollars, compared to 769 million dollars a year earlier.

Update, 17:30: The headline of this article stated initially that RIM is one in ten jobs are deleted. As tweaker tes_shavon, however, noted, 11 percent previously, down to one in nine jobs. The header is adjusted accordingly.