Job Cuts: New Wave of Layoffs at Nokia in Europe
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Telecommunications equipment supplier Nokia is laying off around 1,100 employees in Europe. Golem has learned this from corporate circles. In an internal memo available to Golem, Nokia's corporate management detailed which national workforces will be affected by the mass layoffs and to what extent. The home market of Finland is hit hardest with 253 positions, followed by Poland (241) and Romania (211). The layoff plans in Finland were already reported by a local media outlet (opens in new window). The planned workforce reductions primarily affect Nokia's traditional network infrastructure business: by far the largest cut occurs in the Mobile Networks (MN) division with 547 affected positions, followed by the Network Infrastructure, IP, and Optics (NI) division with 401 eliminations. Germany and France are exempt because massive reductions and site closures, such as in Munich, are already underway there. According to informed circles, further announcements for the year 2027 are likely to follow here around Christmas. Nokia justifies the planned measures with the cost-cutting program announced back in 2023 (opens in new window), which aimed to reduce the cost base by 800 to 1,200 million euros by the end of 2026. This week, the sale of Nokia's Enterprise Campus Edge (ECE) business with around 1,000 employees to the investor Aurelius was announced (opens in new window). A price...
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