Buy, close, cut. In an attempt to revive Motorola, Google take up the ax. After buying the phone company for 12,5 billion dollars in May, the absolute ruler of search engines is choosing a hard line and sends 4.000 employees home, equal to a fifth of the entire workforce. The fraction becomes even larger if you look at Motorola's 94 offices around the world: about a third will be forced to close their doors.
“These changes are designed to return Motorola's mobile device unit to profitability – explains Google in the documentation sent to the US Sec -, after losses in 14 of the last 16 quarters”. A third of the 4.000 jobs to be cut will be in the US, but the company has not yet specified where or which facilities will be affected.
