05:12 
Wed, 7th January 2009
Motorola Cuts Additional 2,600 Jobs, Halts Handset Manufacturing in Singapore
It’s Friday, every company’s selection period for sh*tcanning employees. After announcing it module be splitting its weak sound units from the rest of the consort terminal week, a restrictive filing reveals that Motorola module also be display whatever 2,600 employees the door.
As the Chicago Tribune notes, the layoffs module be prefabricated as a conception of the company’s $500 meg cost-cutting manoeuvre declared early this year, and module movement crossways every threesome of Motorola’s playing units.
From the Tribune:
A large assets of the 2,600 forfeited jobs module become from Singapore, where the consort is thinking to prevent radiophone sound manufacturing by the modify of this year. The shuttering of those dealings module termination in the expiration of 700 jobs.
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Other field reductions are to verify locate in Plantation, Fla., where Motorola module permit go of 354 employees, and in a Birmingham, England, artefact that module retrograde 120 jobs.
That brings the total sort of terminated employees over the terminal 15 months to 10,000, according to Broadband Reports, ease leaving the consort slightly aweigh of Dell’s designed 8,800 employ cuts. Strange, no salary caps for executives mentioned in Motorola’s cost-cutting measures, either.
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