“Two leaks Tuesday morning have revealed both long-term and newly developed problems at Nokia,” Electronista reports.
“An investigation by Finnish paper Helsingen Sanomat has revealed that Nokia has had a problem with executive defections as far back as 14 years ago,” Electronista reports. “Product developer Jyrki Hallikainen had persuaded 44 other staff to join him at startup Microcell in 1997 and ended up convincing the company to pay $4.5 million per person, or about $200 million, just to keep all but Hallikainen in the company.”
Read more in the full article here.
So, they were spying on their staff, 14 years ago? Have they been dying that long?
Nope. Just paranoid.
Nokia sounds like it has had long term management problems. IOW: It has a self-destruction problem as well as a competition problem. It’s paranoia as well as disrespect for their employees. From the source article:
“Nokia reportedly threatened the Finnish government with leaving the country unless it got a special set of laws that let it spy on employees’ conversations to try and prevent anyone from leaving.”
That’s lousy biznizz. Both Hallikainen and Nokia as a whole sound like dickheads. I’d leave too.
Don’t worry, Nokia is in safe hand now – Microsoft. 🙂
didn’t you mean in “safe mode” – Microsoft? 😛