Nokia culling IT and R&D workforce

SNEAKING THE news out during the cacophony that was 3GSM Barcelona, Nokia is to trim its workforce by 700 - of which around half will be in Finland.

Around 360 jobs will be lost in Nokia's Enterprise Solutions division while the R&D jobs will impact its Software Platforms unit in its Technology Platforms division.

They'll also be cuts in Nokia's own internal IT department. The company is seeking to redeploy many of those affected into other parts of the organisation.

Juha Äkräs, a senior vp with Nokia's Human Resources department, sought to put a nice spin on it. He claimed, "In 2006, close to 10,000 people rotated into new positions across the Nokia group."

That's an enormous number of spinners. µ