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.
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.