Nokia confirms that 1400 jobs will disappear in Finland

For the end of the year disappear in Nokia 1400 jobs, so you made the Finnish manufacturer is known. Possible still more, later dismissed. It’s been a long time not good with the Finnish phone maker, which is struggling with a declining market share.

The redundancies at the department for Symbian – and Meego-development in Finland, as was the Finnish news site Yle know. Nokia has in that department now talks about the necessary redundancies completed, but was not yet known how the redundancies between the departments are divided, because conversations with other departments. The ontslagproces will be phased in smoothly, so claims the Finnish phone maker. Nokia wants some of the employees only to dismiss them after certain new products are introduced. According to Nokia, it is only at the end of 2012 known what effect the layoffs will have. For the end of 2012, a total of 4000 employees on the street.

Nokia released some time ago, after poor results and a declining market share, a new policy is implemented. The Finnish mobieltjesbouwer move its Symbian operating system to the side and is going to focus on Windows Phone from Microsoft. However, there is still some time Symbian phones released. The development of the Symbian operating system is outsourced to Accenture. Nokia and Accenture have now reached an agreement that means that 2800 Symbian developers in the last company to get on with it.