The announcement follows the layoff of 1350 employees in Finland, which Microsoft bought Nokia’s factories two years ago.
– Now it’s just out and find another job with the same. But we got in anyway a good sandwich with us, said two employees of Microsoft’s facility in Finnish Tampere to Helsingin Sanomat TV crew.
They had just left the briefing in the city Espoo where they bussed in the morning, unaware of the cause. Now, described the meeting as they all “fired on the American way.”
Inside the meeting sent employees sms with sad smiles to journalists waiting outside. Today’s announcement from the IT giant Microsoft described as yet another black day for the Finnish mobile development.
It was in 2013 that Microsoft purchased , the late long loss-making mobile phone manufacturing by Nokia for 5.4 billion euros .
But the visions came to naught. Their operating system, Windows Phone, which is used in Microsoft mobiles, has not passed the competition with Apple and Google. Even after a year said more than a thousand workers on the Finnish plants in Oulu and Salo. Now, therefore, more than just as many to quit, making Microsoft one of the employers who kicked the most in Finland in the 2000s.
The news from the US company was not there single hard blow to the Finnish labor market on Wednesday. Another came from within, when the Finnish government announced that it ends with the rescue efforts of the Talvivaara nickel mine in Sotkamo Finnish government took over after the bankruptcy of the other year. Also, it will now be closed, probably by hundreds of lost jobs as a result.
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