RIM slashes 2,000 jobs

[Simon]

Research in Motion will cut 2,000 jobs across its global workforce.

RIM announced the cuts last month, but is only now giving full details of how many staff will be affected. The cuts leave the BlackBerry maker with 17,000 staff.

"The workforce reduction is believed to be a prudent and necessary step for the long term success of the company and it follows an extended period of rapid growth within the company whereby the workforce had nearly quadrupled in the last five years alone," the company said.

The cuts will hit "all functions" of the company, but RIM noted the "cost optimisation" plan was focused on reallocating "resources to focus on areas that offer the highest growth opportunities and alignment with RIM's strategic objectives".

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[Rik]

The competition is getting harder...

[pctech]

The blackberry platform itself is pretty solid and the hardware is well made and of course then we get to the excellent security record.

Am really quite surprised corporates are turning away from it other than employees wanting to use other devices.