Helsinki: Microsoft on Monday confirmed it will close its Finnish mobile phone unit and cut up to 1,350 jobs in the Nordic country.
The cuts, initially announced in May, are part of Microsoft's plan to shed 1,850 jobs from its smartphone business.
Microsoft bought the troubled phone business in 2014 from Nokia, Finland's biggest company.
When US software giant Microsoft bought Nokia's struggling mobile phone business last year, the inhabitants of Salo – a town of 54,000 in southern Finland – thought the move would revive the local economy.
Ten years ago, Nokia’s operations in Salo employed 5,000 people and even in 2008, over a fifth of all jobs in the area were within information technology.
But their hopes were crushed when Microsoft announced it would close Nokia's former product development unit in the town, putting all jobs at risk. Last year the US company had said it could hire more staff in Salo.
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