Nokia confirms 7,000 job cuts, 3,000 of them to discover a new house at Accenture

Nokia has simply issued a press release asserting what many have been anticipating since Stephen Elop bought on stage and stated Windows Telephone would grow to be the first smartphone operating system for the Finnish handset maker going forward. About 7,000 persons are going to be leaving Nokia’s payroll in an effort to save 1 billion Euros in costs. Accenture goes to rent 3,000 of those 7,000 folks to work on Symbian. Nokia said that they’re planning a “strategic collaboration with Accenture”, but make no mistake about it, it’s merely a pleasant manner of saying “we want to get rid of Symbian once and for all”. The other 4,000 individuals … nicely, these poor souls higher begin sprucing up their C.V. since they’ll get the boot in some unspecified time in the future in the latter half in 2012. That’s right, if you’re one of many 7,000 people affected by at present’s announcement then you’ll have your job until the end of 2011, and doubtless till the tip of the first half of 2012 as well. The vast majority of the job cuts are going to happen in Finland (Symbian folks), Denmark (Series 40 of us), and the UK (overpriced marketing people).

Count on all of the proficient people inside Nokia to take a resignation package, if they hadn’t already final year, and to move on to bigger and higher things. As for the useless weight within the center, they’ll have a little bit of more durable time, but unemployment laws are so pleasant in Northern Europe that it isn’t like these people are going to go hungry. What we need to know is what Accenture goes to do with these 3,000 Symbian engineers after Nokia stops supporting their “legacy” operating system? In roughly 18 months time the last Symbian smartphone ought to depart considered one of Nokia’s many factories, so is Accenture planning to make those of us decide up some Android improvement books to chew on over the weekend?

Anyway, it’s nice to see the large ship starting to turn. We just hope this act isn’t 4 years too late.