BlackBerry may lay off up to 40% of employees

Hard times for the company and the BlackBerry continues the board is willing to sell it, as well as the patent portfolio is estimated at $ 2-3 billion. Against this background, the representatives of Wall Street Journal found that within the company is preparing a large-scale staff reductions. The result can be fired up to 40% of all employees. The reduction will not be momentary, and the waves will occur in different countries. Carry out the action plan by the end of the year. Last year, BlackBerry has resorted to a reduction in 5,000 jobs, bringing the number of employees is 12,700. Also less significant action to reduce the workers were in the first half of this year. About the radical reduction of rumors since as CEO Thorstein Heinz announced the need to cut costs on the basis of loss-making quarters. And those in the BlackBerry was already a little row.