Nokia layoff storm or draw period most employees have signed the exit agreement

According to the previous redundancy agreement, today is the last date that Microsoft gave the original Nokia employee that was cut off. According to Tencent Science and technology, most of the staff have signed the separation agreement, the choice is n+2+2 redundancy compensation program, the final date of separation is September 30. In early July, Microsoft announced global layoffs, and the company, soon under Microsoft's revenue, became the hardest hit, with about 12,500 people being cut off from the equipment and services of the latter, which naturally did not survive in China. In early August, employees of Nokia China began protesting against Microsoft's violent layoffs due to the n+2 of compensation for layoffs. However, Microsoft does not have any loosening in the compensation standard, and requests the staff to sign the negotiation exit agreement before August 22, otherwise will unilaterally force the layoff, then the N staff can only obtain the national stipulation the compensation. Microsoft then postponed the deadline to August 29. As early as last September, Microsoft announced that it had launched a takeover of the Nokia mobile phone department. Elop, the Nokia CEO, 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. The so-called standard of Nokia's commitment is n+2. Nokia employees had previously disclosed to Tencent technology that Nokia had had a small layoff in 2012 and 2013, and that the compensation standards were n+2, not n+6. The layoffs, due to the first batch of layoffs September 30 will not be carried out, Microsoft actually gave the crew two months of extra pay to find work of the buffer period, equivalent to n+2+2. So most employees signed the exit agreement. For some employees who need to go to the end of the year, compensation will be given for the buffer period. People familiar with the matter to Tencent Technology, said that the staff due to the different types of jobs, signed the separation agreement period is also different, last week, the staff of individual departments 99% have signed, only one has not signed. In addition, for the staff, Microsoft also set up a 18 million Yuan training fund for the staff of the Cut skills transformation training. In addition, Microsoft has opened up a number of other job openings in the hope of helping the retrenched workers get their jobs again as soon as possible. There are sources of information that the number of people who can find a job quickly accounts for about 20% of the total. At this point, the Nokia layoffs are a temporary pause, but the industry on the future fate of Nokia expressed concern. Announcing the day of layoffs for Microsoft, it also announced that Nokia would give up the Android system and that its mobile phone products would be merged into the Lumia sector, meaning that the takeover of the company's embarrassing Android product was sentenced to death. From the product level, Microsoft is phasing out Nokia's original product style, currently only hundreds of yuan ultra low-end mobile phones, here map and network equipment and patented technology. Although Microsoft has retained the Nokia brand after the acquisition of Nokia, but in the industry and even the user's heart, without the support of hardware, people also know who Nokia is? That's true, Finn, from 2007.The proposed transformation of the Internet service strategy can now be said to be a real success, but this success has come some twists and turns, pay a huge price is Nokia brand influence of the daily fade.