Behind Nokia's layoffs in China: Nokia employees have been spoiled

Lei's work has become hectic since July 17, when Microsoft officially announced a global layoff plan. As one of the employees involved in the job cuts, he will work with his colleagues to plan for layoffs in China.

In a layoff plan of 18,000 people, Nokia, soon under Microsoft's revenue, has already been the hardest hit, with about 12,500 workers from the equipment and services sector. The main job of Lei is to cut jobs for employees in the Nokia China area.

As an old Nokia employee, Lei has seen many layoffs in the company's history. However, after Nokia was acquired by Microsoft, this is the first time he himself is responsible for layoffs related matters.

In the past, Nokia's layoffs in China were small, and employees left the company calmly after receiving compensation. But this time surprised Lei, the layoff plan has not been completed, the staff began a collective protest, openly accused the new owner of Microsoft "violent layoffs." ”

Disgruntled retrenched Employees

This April, Microsoft completed a takeover of Nokia's equipment and services sector. A large number of Nokia Chinese employees have also become Microsoft employees. But 3 months later, the fate of layoffs has befallen them.

July 17, Microsoft announced a global layoff plan, the acquisition of Nokia became the hardest hit, China is naturally not spared. Since then, in the Beijing also Zhuang economic development Zone, Nokia is responsible for research and development of more than 2000 employees have no intention to work, began to more talk will be cut, and how much compensation can be received.

As early as last September, Microsoft announced that it had launched a takeover of the Nokia mobile phone department. Then Nokia CEO Stephen Elop (Stephen Elop) reassured employees that there was no redundancy plan. To reassure them, he promised that if Microsoft were to lay off workers within a year of the acquisition, employees would be compensated according to Nokia's standards.

How much compensation would you get if you were cut? Li Ping, who has worked for 2 years in Nokia China, has been inquiring about the matter with his colleagues since late July.

It is reported that Microsoft may give "n+6" monthly salary compensation (N for employees working in the company for years). Li Ping felt that if it were so, he would be perfectly acceptable even if he was laid off.

In the anxious waiting, Li Ping and other employees, and finally ushered in the Microsoft announced the layoffs of the moment.

On the morning of August 1, Microsoft China's managers went to Nokia's park to preach redundancy plans and announced that the compensation for the termination of the labor contract was "n+2". People were greatly disappointed. Hundreds of of thousands of Nokia employees walked out of the building and protested collectively in the park. A banner has been played, accusing Microsoft of treachery, "violence layoffs."

It is reported that Nokia also has more than 2000 research and development staff, of which about 1500 to 1600 people to be laid off. For more than 3,000 workers in a manufacturing plant in the same park, Microsoft has proposed a voluntary exit plan that does not force layoffs, and compensation is a "n+2" monthly salary.

At the same time, Microsoft will give a Lumia 630 mobile phone as a souvenir, not a "first-come-first-served" reward for some factory employees who accept the severance package. Lumia 630 is a mid-range windows Phone phone, the market price of about 1000 yuan up and down.