Nokia announces layoffs with flowery language

Hiding behind a press release titled "Nokia continues its change and renews some of its activities," the woodsmen of Espoo are swinging a corporate axe of woe. In total, the mobile phone giant plans to cut something on the order of about 600 jobs in its Sales and Marketing, R&D, and global operations. Nothing compared to the cuts at Motorola but certainly unwelcome news for those affected.

[Jakob @ Nov 4th 2008 4:58AM]

Nokia - Finnish People, (heh it was too obvious)

[jack1701 @ Nov 4th 2008 7:46AM]

Nokia - disconnecting people

[allislost @ Nov 4th 2008 8:27AM]

Nokia - Connecting People... to unemployment

[Huihai @ Nov 4th 2008 8:49AM]

Nokia - connecting people, disconnecting families.

Which is evident now since when daddy loses his job, wife seeks a new man.

[ghex88 @ Nov 4th 2008 11:22AM]

Finished too, and all fired up LOL
That was the most beautiful fu**ing logo I've ever seen.
Thumbs up to engadget!

[derX @ Nov 4th 2008 4:59AM]

Wow, when I had initially read the first line, I didn't see the closing quotation mark and thought it had included the spiel about swinging corporate axes. I thought, "Damn, that's worse than 'it's not you, it's me.'"

Yeah, I'm gonna go sleep....

[avis @ Nov 4th 2008 5:00AM]

"cutting people"

[Uncontrol @ Nov 4th 2008 5:17AM]

hope they don't fire whoever designed that sick logo

[jds @ Nov 4th 2008 7:51AM]

Absolutely off-topic, but I'm really interested to know how that logo was created.

[SamPix @ Nov 4th 2008 8:01AM]

http://www.sgr.kiev.ua (you'll find the logo in "COMMERCIAL")

[allislost @ Nov 5th 2008 7:18PM]

umm... guys... click on the first picture on the top left after clicking on that link...

[allislost @ Nov 4th 2008 8:25AM]

umm... guys... click on the first picture on the top left after clicking on that link...

[Joe Mars @ Nov 4th 2008 9:19AM]

@ allislost
Good Call!!!

[thedesolate1 @ Nov 4th 2008 10:25AM]

@JDS
MS Paint of course!

[AFP @ Nov 4th 2008 5:58PM]

@JDS - it looks like a Si Scott design, see their site:
http://www.siscottstudio.com/

[Nikonov @ Nov 4th 2008 5:26AM]

What was the term George Carlin used... Ah! "Management curtailing redundancies in the human resources department."

[Mike @ Nov 4th 2008 5:41AM]

My Dad works for Nokia in R&D, yet I still laughed at the picture, so good job engadget!

[iEye @ Nov 4th 2008 6:40AM]

This is what happens when you have nothing to offer except phones with a built in flashlight...

Took way too long to release anything that can stand up to the awsomeness that is the iPhone...

so where is the TUBE?

[hamza @ Nov 4th 2008 6:48AM]

Nobody likes you. Now go suck back to sucking Job's dick.

[iEye @ Nov 4th 2008 6:52AM]

^^^ You kiss your mama with that filthy mouth of yours? tsk tsk... :-P

[Goonfeld @ Nov 4th 2008 7:57AM]

erm.. 40% WW market share in total handset units AND >40% share in smartphones, begs to differ with you...

[Aaron @ Nov 4th 2008 8:04AM]

Hmm.. is it Apple with it's massive 2% market share (mostly from Nokia's least important sales region) causing Nokia problems or is the general slowdown in the world economy causing Nokia problems?

I love your fantasy world, iEye. It's so cute. :)

[Patriks7 @ Nov 4th 2008 10:28AM]

No, but I did something to your mama with this mouth.. and now I really regret it..

[Janne @ Nov 4th 2008 6:41AM]

Nokia still believes that they can find work elsewhere in the company as has happened before - at least according to Nokia's spokeswoman in Finland, Eija-Riitta Huovinen and Finnish Broadcasting Company.

How come no news about Wired rating E71 better than Bold and iPhone?

[Thomas Ricker @ Nov 4th 2008 6:56AM]

Janne, Some will be relocated, but the 600ish are cuts.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/technology-media-telco-SP/idUKL430524020081104?feedType=RSS

[Janne @ Nov 4th 2008 8:25AM]

"Nokia believes that the ongoing negotiations do not lead to redundancies." Source: www.yle.fi/uutiset

Although this probably means especially the Finnish workers. Out of the 600 mentioned here about 100 are working in Finland.

[Journo UA @ Nov 4th 2008 3:13PM]

So where is the link about E71? Couldn`t find any information about that @ Wired...

[Ex-Nokia @ Jan 6th 2009 3:05PM]

I was one of those cut, and unable to find another position. I believe that in my case and some others, it was a result more of severe misunderstanding of the roles than anything else. That happens in a giant company... but knowing so doesn't ease the frustration.

[suraj @ Nov 4th 2008 7:56AM]

NOKIA '' CONNECTING PEOPLE BUT DISCONNECTING HEARTS"

[Crow @ Nov 4th 2008 8:06AM]

Well I guess this is good news for everyone (except the ones laid off).
Nokia's marketing has been the same for a while now. Nothing too "wow". And I think the sales are majorly concentrated in the Middle East.

Let's hope there's a change for something better in the works!

[Ex-Nokia @ Jan 6th 2009 3:04PM]

Just because people report to the Markets structure doesn't make them all sales and marketing personnel. Many of us supported operations.

[Jash Sayani @ Nov 4th 2008 8:30AM]

Even NOKIA - Disconnecting Employees would be a good one.....

[Dead_Rebel @ Nov 4th 2008 8:53AM]

You all coming up with the "Nokia - " comments are terrible at life.

[Benjamin Wright @ Nov 4th 2008 9:18AM]

As employees are handed pink slips, an employer like Nokia may be wise to retain their e-mail records. --Ben http://legal-beagle.typepad.com/wrights_legal_beagle/2008/10/retain-e-mail-of-former-employees.html

[WickedEast @ Nov 4th 2008 10:33AM]

Slow news day?

[phanbouy @ Nov 4th 2008 11:58AM]

yeah nothing happens on Nov 4

[thedesolate1 @ Nov 4th 2008 10:35AM]

I hope they fire the guy who decided to sell a $800+ N96. With the only real advantage over its now much cheaper predecessor is DVBH.

[WickedEast @ Nov 4th 2008 10:46AM]

You never miss an opportunity to sneer at Nokia, don't you, Engadget? Lay down the Apple kool-aid and maybe you wouldn't have "missed" news such as "Analyst says Apple may cut iPhone production by more than 40%" and wouldn't spend time throwing cheap shots at other companies.

[Pdexter @ Nov 4th 2008 11:18AM]

It's normal Engadget no doubt about it. Usually i need to wait couple of says before positive Nokia news come here compared to European blogs and even then those news are on Engadget Mobile side.

Thought it's true that Nokia isn't doing the best currently. It's Samsung that's rocking. Nokia is far from trouble with the 39% market share and more profits than most of biggest car manufacturers out there. Yep, INNOV8 wins N96 any day expect in the soft side, but Samsung actually got pretty good portfolio in mid and low end too and that's more important than the most highest priced INNOV8. INNOV8 isn't going to be N95 like impact with over 15 million sold phones, but it will kill N96.... and that's a good thing because only reason why it's even selling something currently is Nokia brand and index number(takes N96 just because it's higher on N series line than N85).

I got high hopes for Nokia in 2009, that's said to be one big showdown with the big 2 (Samsung and Nokia) by people who at least on the have known what's going on. Waiting for the killer products in 2009 because this year has been one of the most boring ever on high end mobile phones.

[John @ Dec 9th 2008 7:04PM]

Nokia was once a great company and it's sad to see what it's become.
The company is being influenced by directors and executives who have undergrade and graduate business degrees
and NO technical experience. The company has become very socialist and takes on the greed, blame and lack
of responsibility found on wall street today.

The company spend about a billion dollars getting into the mobile email business and spent years
collaborating with RIM and Microsoft. They then had core R&D and management staff that understood
the wireless email business and the enterprise mobility market.

They then hired the idiot that ran Packard Bell into the ground to run their Enterprise Business.
She hired an idiot from Lotus Notes with no smartphone or enterprise mobility experience.
He brought in all his buddies and friends from Lotus, none of whom ever worked in the mobile market or
had any R&D experience with the core technology Nokia depends on.

The Lotus fuck ups then began laying off the core of the R&D and management staff Nokia spent
a billion training and educating.

What resulted was RIM stole all the customers they hoped to get with their mobile email business.
Microsoft sticks it to them with fees to use ActiveSync.
The Intellisync business they purchased is bankrupt and cannot even sustain the customers Nokia inherited when
it purchased Intellisync Mobile Suite.

So now Nokia is sitting on losses to RIM, annual fees to Microsoft, a bankrupt company the spent .5 Billion dollars on
and all they have to show for it is a bunch of managers from Lotus and their friends.

What's worse is the current Americas senior management located in Boston and California lay off valuable resources
quarterly by BLAMING them for the looses the company experiences. This practice continues even today when they
reorganize the business by laying off more staff with enterprise experience, renaming the business units with catchy
names then restructuring the bonus programs so they, Senior Managers, get the lions share of any earnings.

Until the Finnish manages wake up and fire all the idiots in Boston and California, Nokia will continue to loose market
share and will soon be battling for such a small part of the global market, they will be known as the "Once Mobile Giant."

Right now Apple and Samsung are taking Nokia's market share globally.
Google, LG and the Carriers are taking ALL their business in the US.

If you own Nokia stock, wait until the market takes an up swing then SELL IT.
The company is lost until the get all the silicon valley and lotus notes dumb asses out of positions of authority.

For the record, I once worked for Nokia's R&D and now work for the competition.
Thanks Nokia for training me in bleeding edge technology and sending me to the competition for a better, higher paying job.



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[joboutlets @ Jan 14th 2009 5:17AM]

I have a very close friend, who graduated from Harvard. Worked for ML for over 8 years, recently he’s been “right sized” too, despite of his outstanding performance and the increasing revenue he generated. OMG, now the banking industry is badly hurt, how long it would take for those financial background guys like him get back to the job market. Banking jobs are not there as much as before as easily seen on http://www.joboutlets.com and other job sites in the region