Motorola plans significant reductions of the staff
Company Motorola namerena to dismiss since July, 1st, 2008 150 of 600 employees of research division Motorola Labs, writes Лента.ru referring to Chicago Tribune. 180 More person from Motorola Labs will be distributed on various departments of the company. According to management Motorola, such shifts will help developers to adjust cooperation with business partners, and also to optimise investments in researches and to concentrate on the most important for the company directions.
Edition RCR News, however,informs, that Motorola namerena to reduce staff Motorola Labs to 120 persons. The remained 270 persons will attend to the long-term projects which have been not adhered to any concrete division of the company.
About shifts in staff Motorola it became known shortly after the director for strategy and technologies of company Rich Nottenburg (Rich Nottenburg) has left the post. It has passed to a post of the general director in Sonus Networks, delivering the communication equipment.
In April, 2008 it became known about shifts in company Motorola board of directors. The former general director of telecommunication company AT&T David Dorman has been nominated To a post of the chairman of advice without executive authorities (David Dorman). On a new post it has replaced former chief executive Eda Zendera (Ed Zander).
On April, 8th Motorola declared fast division into two companies - the division on production of cellular telephones becomes independent in 2009. This decision is connected with bad financial indexations of 2007. A share of mobile division last year it was reduced with 23 to 13 percent therefore Motorola has conceded the second place in the market after Nokia to Korean company Samsung. Thus sales of mobile division in 2007 have made $19 billion, that on third there are less than indicators of 2006.
