Nokia Beijing Research and Development Center or two-thirds people will be cut

Nokia is being swallowed up by Microsoft. U.S. time July 17, Microsoft announced the launch of the company's history of the largest layoffs. Microsoft plans to cut 18,000 jobs, affected by the streamlining and integration of Nokia's mobile phone business units. Of these, about 12,500 of the retrenched staff will be from the newly acquired Nokia Equipment and services sector, mainly in manufacturing plants and functional machine development and related departments. For Nokia, under Microsoft, the value of the brand may be left. The injured were always Nokia after Microsoft acquired Nokia, absorbing 28,000 Nokia employees. According to the plan, 12,500 people will be cut off, meaning nearly half of Nokia employees face unemployment after being bought by Microsoft. The green buildings that once made Nokia proud were completely tarnished. The former Nokia China headquarters, after the acquisition, only Nokia's Beijing Research and Development center and procurement, supply chain management departments, now has nearly 2000 employees. A person familiar with the matter told the IT Times that Beijing Research and Development center would be the hardest hit by the layoffs. At the beginning of July 21, employees in the center have received redundancy notice. However, the compensation programme and the time for separation have not been mentioned. Nokia Research and development is divided into mobile phone business and intelligent equipment business. The handset business mainly has the low-end handset (Symbian S30, the S40 system) and the Nokia X series (Android system), Beijing has more than 1100 staffs. These people said that in addition to retaining ultra-low-end mobile phone s30,s40 and Nokia X mobile phone department will be cut off. and intelligent equipment business, refers to Lumia mobile phone (WP system), Beijing has more than 300 employees, only the number of people less than One-third, this part will be left behind. After several adjustments, Nokia has only a few places in the global Research and Development center, including Finland, Beijing, the United States and San Diego. Several European research and development centers have been taken to Beijing. Microsoft executive Vice President, Nokia former CEO Elop in the Mail, said mobile phone engineering development work will focus on the Finnish Salou (for the future of high-end Lumia products) and Finnish Tampere (for lower priced equipment). And Beijing's engineering development work will be cut, the future plays a supporting role, the development of low-cost equipment. Estimates (Beijing) will leave less than 400 people. said the person. Manufacturing plants are also facing layoffs. He said the future of the plant will focus on Hanoi, Vietnam, while some other manufacturing work continues in Beijing and Dongguan. However, some media quoted Beijing city government sources as saying that the Nokia Beijing factory plans to lay off 3000 people. The output of the plant has declined significantly from previous years. In 3-5 months, the factory will be relocated from Beijing. Dongguan factory employees told reporters that the operations director of the staff to voluntarily apply for layoffs. In addition, procurement, supply chain management and sales will be reduced correspondingly.