BlackBerry lays off 200 staff in Canada and the US

BlackBerry lays off 200 staff in Canada and the US

BlackBerry has simply parted with "roughly 200 staff" whole in each Waterloo, Ontario, and Dawn, Florida. The corporate hasn't disclosed which branches of its operations the cuts are centered on, however earlier reviews pointed on the BlackBerry 10 and Units departments.

The information comes a month after CEO John Chen asserted that the corporate's OS is "removed from lifeless", an announcement which was wanted to clear the air after the day past it was introduced that BlackBerry will probably be switching solely to Android for future smartphones. And whereas persevering with assist for present units actually implies that the OS is "removed from useless", the shortage of future BB10 gadgets does warrant cuts within the workforce.


The layoffs are a part of the struggling firm's turnaround plan, which appears to be heading in the right direction, given the final monetary stories from December final 12 months. At $15 million within the purple, the corporate's loss was four.5 occasions lower than analysts had predicted, and the Priv appears to be doing nothing however good for BlackBerry.