“Most of those positions, 3,000 of them, will be cut from the Mobile Devices business while the rest are from corporate functions and other business units. The cuts begin immediately and will join the 3,000 employees already let go in the fourth quarter of 2008 for a total of 7,000 in the last two months,” Spear reports.
“According to preliminary financial results, Motorola sold only 19 million phones in the fourth quarter, compared to 25.4 million in the third quarter and 40.9 million in the fourth quarter of 2007,” Spear reports.
Motorola has cut “a total of about 17,500 eliminated positions in the last half-decade as the company scales back from the heights of its success,” Spear reports. “The company employed as many as 150,000 staffers worldwide at the beginning of 2000. “
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In May 2007, Motorola’s then-Chairman and then-CEO Ed Zander boasted that his company was ready for competition from Apple’s iPhone, due out the following month. “How do you deal with that?” Zander was asked at the Software 2007 conference. Zander quickly retorted, “How do they deal with us?”
