Friday, September 20, 2013


Annexed Microsoft, Nokia Employees How fate?


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Annexed Microsoft, Nokia Employees How fate?



Nokia's main business units, namely devices and services division,

certain to be taken over by Microsoft. This shocking news was

announced by Microsoft on Tuesday (09/03/2013) this.



Microsoft had to spend 5.44 billion euros ($ 81.2 billion) for its

plan to acquire Nokia's main business. In addition to their two

business units, Microsoft is also entitled to a patent license,

property, and employees of Nokia.



Once annexed Microsoft, how about the thousands of other Nokia employees?



As quoted from AllThingsD, as part of the agreement, approximately

32,000 Nokia employees planned to be transferred to Microsoft. Around

18,300 employees of whom are directly involved in the manufacture of

the products and services of Microsoft.



This means, not all Nokia moved to Microsoft employees. A total of

56,000 employees will remain under the management of Nokia Group and

worked for three business units that are not purchased Microsoft, the

digital map and location services; telecommunications network

infrastructure and services, as well as technology development.



Nokia Group itself maintains its headquarters in Espoo, Finland.



Several Nokia executives will likely be transferred to Microsoft,

including Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, Jo Harlow, Juha Putkiranta, Timo

Toikkanen, and Chris Weber. They are the big names that have been

caring for Nokia devices and services business.



Stephen Elop, who served as CEO of Nokia since September 2010, had to

remove his post. He will work for Microsoft and served as Vice

President of Devices and Services Division Business Unit Nokia annexed

Microsoft.



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