Nokia will close its site at Turku, Finland and redeploy the staff there to Salo or near Helsinki. The company has also announced a "sharpened focus" that will put 130 research staff at risk - plus another 35 "workforce adjustments" in operations. Around 200 of the staff are Finland-based, the rest are spread around the world …

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Wednesday 5th November 2008 15:44 GMT Anonymous Coward

I wouldn't like to be redeployed to Salo

but I'd like to see marketing people sent there, for 120 days or so.

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Wednesday 5th November 2008 15:44 GMT Gene Cash

Fire the N810 OS2008 boys!

Those guys are about as useful as a Vista developer... both versions of OS2008 are so unstable I went back to OS2007. Did they get these guys from Palm or something?

I'll fly to Finland and hand them the pink slips myself.

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