The areas affected will be; the Commercial, Government and Industrial Solutions Sector (CGISS); the Global Telecommunications Solutions Sector (GTSS); and the Broadband Communications Sector (BCS).
The majority of the positions being eliminated will come from two of the businesses within Motorola’s Networks Sector: CGISS and GTSS. BCS will be impacted to a lesser degree. Motorola’s Networks Sector was formed in January and is a leading provider of broadband and wireless communications products, systems and end-to-end solutions.
Plans for the workforce reduction will either be completed or communicated to affected employees by the end of the second quarter. The specific timing of actions will depend upon legal or regulatory requirements in various countries.
Edward D. Breen, president of Motorola’s Networks Sector commented on the restructuring programme, Motorola is making tough but deliberate and strategic business decisions in order to remain competitive in the slowing economy. Unfortunately, reductions have been necessary for us to improve financial performance, and this is something that we will have to continually evaluate as we monitor market and economic conditions.
Since December, Motorola has announced plans to eliminate 22,000 positions through a combination of internal restructurings and divestitures of some operations, including this latest announcement, from a global workforce of 147,000.
