Microsoft cuts 1100 people in Finland

Beijing time July 18 Morning News, Microsoft Equipment department head, Nokia former CEO Elop (Stephen Elop) in Thursday called Finnish Prime Minister Alexander Stubb (Alexander Stubb) said that Microsoft will cut 1100 people from 4,700 Finnish employees from Nokia's mobile phone business. Stubb said the layoff was deeply regrettable and revealed that the government would do its best to minimise the impact. While the news is bound to depress Finns, it is not surprising. There was already a rumor that Microsoft would restructure in Finland, shedding jobs on Nokia's mobile phone business, which was acquired in April this year. Finland has been hit by the decline of Nokia, perhaps the most distressing of the June 2012, when Nokia announced the closure of a mobile plant in the city of Salo in the southwestern part of the country. The move was part of a massive restructuring of Nokia, the former mobile-phone market leader who laid off 3700 people in Finland at a time when the company had only 9100 employees in Finland. That round of layoffs did not affect Nokia's online business, which has already launched separate layoffs and restructurings. In 2007, Nokia's mobile and Internet division employed nearly 25,000 employees in Finland. After the Thursday layoff announcement, the new Nokia, which retains the Internet business, and the Nokia mobile phone business renamed Microsoft Mobile, will employ 10,000 people in the country. In other words, the total number of Nokia employees in Finland will be reduced by 15,000 in less than 10. For a country with a population of only 5.5 million, this is a significant figure. Finnish politicians, in a statement in Thursday, called on Microsoft to take on social responsibility, provide training programmes for its workers and make generous severance payments – a similar measure that Nokia has done in Finland and other countries before. And politicians criticized Microsoft for failing to do so, as it pledged to keep its employees in the process of purchasing Nokia's mobile phone business and to ensure Finland's strategic position. Andy Rigny Antti Rinne, the Finnish finance minister and Social Democrat, said: "We can say that we have been betrayed." The Finnish prime minister, Stubb, who is affiliated to the centre-right party, has not given too much rhetoric, saying the Finns should not have any illusions that the government can create jobs. Legislators must create a social environment conducive to entrepreneurship and create a social environment that attracts foreign enterprises. He said. But it is not all hope, after all, that the Finnish entrepreneurial sector has grown rapidly in recent years. "Angry Birds" developer Rovio is one of the typical representatives. As the entrepreneurial culture has gradually sprouted, many of the former employees of Nokia have either joined the start-up companies or started their own businesses. Ilina Palmoros Elina Palmroth-leino, a professional trainer, has conducted a study of Nokia's job cuts, which she estimates has more than 400 former Nokia employees starting their own businesses. And Nokia's total layoffs in the 2011-2013-year period reached5000 people. Renault believes the figure is staggering because the country's highly educated people are not too keen on entrepreneurship. Of course, they are still in the entrepreneurial stage, how much can be successful, but also need time to test. She said.