Nokia's Global Redundancy Plan Affects Dongguan: Nearly 100 Staff Cuts

Nokia's global layoffs plan affects Dongguan. From August to September 30 this year, Nokia Communications Co., Ltd. Dongguan Branch (hereinafter referred to as Nokia in Dongguan) implemented layoffs, nearly 100 employees were laid off, including managers, technicians and veterans, and hundreds of others were affected by adjustments. post. It is understood that this is Nokia’s first “moving knife” for the Dongguan branch since it was announced in June this year that 10,000 people were laid off by the world before 2013. It is also the first in 17 years since Nokia was established as one of Nokia’s major global production bases. Focus on layoffs.

Under the impact of Apple and Samsung smartphones, Nokia CEO Elop has frequently initiated layoffs since its inception in order to reduce expenses. After the announcement of layoffs in June, Nokia China confirmed to the media that this round of layoffs will affect Nokia’s employees in China, but the specific layoffs and the number of employees were not announced at that time.

On October 8, Yu Jia, manager of Nokia Information in Dongguan, said that this layoff was one of Nokia’s strategic adjustments to actively respond to the new competition situation. As a production base, Nokia Nokia's layoffs this time are part of Nokia's global strategic adjustment, and it is also designed to operate more efficiently and at a lower cost.

According to Tang Xin (a pseudonym), a customs official who worked for Nokia in Dongguan for 17 years, this was the first time since the company was founded in 1995 that it has focused on layoffs. Yu Jia confirmed this statement. “There have been staff adjustments before, but this time there is no concentration, and the scale is relatively small.” Yu Jia said that some of the employees are automatically resigning because they are dissatisfied with the position adjustment and are not directly punished.

Gao Xiang, director of public relations at Nokia China, told reporters that, in reality, the number of employees directly laid off at the Dongguan factory was less than 100. However, due to layoffs, hundreds of employees were adjusted.

"According to per capita annual salary of 120,000 to 130,000 yuan, this layoff is expected to be able to save more than 10 million yuan in manpower cost per year for Nokia in Dongguan," said Tang Xin.