Motorola hacks a thousand from China-based R&D team
by Darren Murph 
posted Feb 13th 2009 at 10:42AM
Details are starting to flow in regarding those 4,000 job cuts that Motorola announced in January, and evidently a thousand of 'em are coming from a single Chinese facility. According to the People's Daily Online, 1,000 Moto workers are being dismissed, and every last one of 'em are from the research and development team of the mobile phone department. We're told that the software platform project team suffered the most, and all told, there's just 100 staffers that remain at the plant. For whatever it's worth, Motorola has affirmed that its commitment to growth in the Chinese market remains the same -- apparently it thinks it can still succeed with far fewer heads doing the work.[Via mocoNews]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Adam @ Feb 13th 2009 10:59AM
Fix your title...it's either "a thousand" or "thousands"
lejupp @ Feb 13th 2009 11:00AM
That is a good thing. Establishing this crappy Bejing based R&D department is the culprit that started Motorolas downfall.
dan @ Feb 13th 2009 12:57PM
lejup: Moto is the American Car of the mobile industry. The problem is not solely R&D but marketing decision making. MOTO just lost touch with what peole want. Both looked and functioned like crap.
dan @ Feb 13th 2009 12:59PM
moreover the downsizing drops the whole MOTO Windows Mobile team, leaving an Android team.. Is this a biiger blow to MOTO or to WinMO?