Motorola will fire up to 20% of its staff

In the coming months, the company Motorola, passed on under the control of Google will make large-scale layoffs. Will be laid off up to 20% of all workers. Reportedly, this is one of the steps to restructure the manufacturer after the change of ownership. Given the current number of employees in the company's locations, we are talking about 4,000 layoffs. In addition, management reports that will be closed about a third of the 94 companies currently engaged in production of products under the brand name Motorola. At the same time continuing to be predominantly in Sunnyvale (California), Chicago and Beijing. The company also intends to regain lost ground in China and India, which will be reflected in the preservation of the high proportion of production that will be hosted in Asia. This restructuring will affect all of Motorola personnel, apart from the rank and file employees will be fired up to 40% of all vice-presidents. Change in the structure of produced models in which the company intends to sacrifice quantity for quality - models will be less, but their level increases. In the meantime, is expected to decline in orders for components roughly in half. It is very likely that Motorola (or rather is already in Google) decided to learn from Taiwan's HTC, although it is not noticeable to the latter was able to rectify the situation on the market, despite the re-orientation to a smaller number of models produced.