Nokia on Wednesday announced that the company has decided to outsource its entire Symbian operations to Accenture, which already handles, Symbian Professional Services. Nokia has also mentioned that the company would be transferring roughly over 3000 employees to Accenture by the end of this year. This transfer will majorly affect countries including India, US, UK, Finland and China. Nokia has further mentioned that Accenture will provide all Symbian based software development and support services to the Finnish manufacturer, giving Nokia the power to mainly focus on Microsoft’s Windows Phone.
While, Nokia is outsourced its Symbian operations, the company has also decided to layoff a total of 4000 employees globally by the end of 2012. It will mostly affect employees from UK, Denmark and Finland. Furthermore the company has announced they will rethink their strategy on its Research and Development facilities around the world, and they may end up closing down some units.
Ever since Stephen Elop joined Nokia as the Chief, a lot of things have been changing in the company and due to the rival pressure constantly increasing, Nokia made quite a lot of surprising moves in recent times. Nokia will have all the affected employees under its payroll until the end of this year, and the layoffs will take place in phases.
We just hope that all this effort does not go in vain.
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