Motorola Mobility (India) will scale down its staff strength in line with the announcement from its headquarters in California.
Search engine giant Google bought the company in May and since then has worked to reshape its business. Motorola has around 300 people in India.
When contacted Google India’s spokesperson told Business Line, “While Motorola expects this strategy to create new opportunities and help return its mobile devices unit to profitability; it understands how hard these changes will be for the employees concerned.”
“Motorola is committed to helping them through this difficult transition and will be providing generous severance packages, as well as outplacement services to help people find new jobs,” the spokesperson added.
However, the company declined to comment on numbers, as it would be decided from the headquarters. But, the spokesperson said certainly, "few numbers will go down in India as well".
Google bought Motorola to use its more than 17,000 patents that could help the company in challenges to the Android operating system. It also plans to use Motorola’s expertise in making its own smartphones and other mobile devices.
Motorola on Sunday told its employees that it would lay off 20 per cent (around 4,000 people) of its workforce and close up to a third of its 94 offices worldwide.
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