8 Feb 2012

Nokia will layoff 4000 employees


Nokia announced plans layoffs (layoffs) number of employees in a factory. Approximately 4,000 employees in plants located in Finland, Hungary and Mexico will be laid off in 2012 phased this.

In a statement, Nokia decided to do the layoffs are due to shift production bases to Asia smartphone. Smartphone seen as more efficient assembly done in Asia because the majority of the component suppliers are in this continent.

Quoted by Reuters on Wednesday (02.08.2012), the third factory was hit by termination of employment will still be operating. But more to the process of customization smartphone destined for European and American markets.

"Move the assembly to Asia aimed at increasing our speed to market. By working more closely with suppliers, we are confident of being able to introduce innovations to market faster resulting in more competitive," said Niklas Savander, Nokia Executive Vice President.

Nokia is still the status of the world's largest mobile phone vendor. But they keteteran in the smartphone segment is dominated by Android handset as well as IOS.

Finnish vendor is now hung up on Windows Phone operating system made ​​by Microsoft. They have released a number of Nokia Windows Phone series 800 is Lumia, Lumia Lumia 710 and 900.

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