BlackBerry cuts another 200 employees

BlackBerry made another snip staff  it is 200 employees, despite the December financial results were largely positive. The workforce reduction involves 125 people in the headquarters of Waterloo, in Ontario, and 75 at a manufacturing facility in Sunrise, Florida. The scaling measure of workforce follows that undertaken in September, where another 200 people were laid off, mainly among those who worked on the BlackBerry 10.

Faced with a new measure of this type one wonders what could be the future that John Chen, who assumed he dashed for the BlackBerry company guidance in November of 2013. During the past summer, Chen stressed it has no intention to sell the BlackBerry, at least not immediately, but to bring it to a turning point that would allow it to recover value.

According to analyst Richard Tse of Cormak Securities, the staff reduction measures still respects this view: "The reality is they are really trying to turn into a reality software, so everything they do is calibrated to this goal. There might be figures related to previous activities which are not adapted to the new course. the business smartphone could be called into question later, but right now the focus is still on the commercialization of Priv in new markets. "