Reports have emerged from a Finnish newspaper saying that something in the region of one thousand Nokia employees have walked out of work in protest at the new partnership between Nokia and Microsoft today. So what’s the deal? Read on.
According to the reports in newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, employees are exercising their right to work flexitime, and leaving work early in Tampere and Oulu.
It seems to not quite be a strike, or even a protest, and could just simply be that everything is so up in the air it’s not worth hanging around for the afternoon. Out of Nokia’s 3,000 Tampere employees, around 1,500 work on Symbian, which has now effectively been dropped to a secondary concern for Nokia, who will be pouring all efforts into making the Nokia Windows Phone partnership work.
While initial stories said that one thousand employees had left work, that number has been removed by the Finnish newspaper that first reported it. We’re in the dark about what’s really happened, and are waiting on new reports.
If you worked for Nokia, would you have walked out this morning? Shout out in the comments!
[via TNW]
