HELSINKI: Microsoft has finalized the co-determination negotiations in Finland. As a result, up to 1,350 employees will lose their jobs, the Finnish news agency STT reported on Monday. The number of layoffs is the same as that was told by the company previously in the end of May, when the negotiations began.
According to STT, Microsoft said that most of the layoffs will be implemented soon and the process of the redundancies is expected to be finished at the end of June 2017. The company revealed that some employees involved in the co-determination negotiations have opportunities to move to the company’s headquarters in Redmond, northwestern the United States or other units of the company in Finland.
In May, Microsoft announced to slash 1,350 people in Finland as a result of its plan to streamline its smart phone hardware business. The company’s product development unit in Tampere, central southern Finland would be shut down. Microsoft’s layoff plan created anxieties in Finland after it was announced. Some Finnish politicians accused the company of breaking promises, as it had pledged to inherit nearly 5,000 former Nokia workers when it purchased Nokia’s phone business.
