Nokia Moves New Offices to Chicago; 150 new Jobs + 100 More Location Service Hirings
Earlier this week Nokia announced a move for their “Mobile Xpress Internet services” division from Itasca (also in Illinois) to Chicago; merging with the Chicago office which is already Nokia’s largest office in North America (about 1,500 employees after the move). Nokia have also added 100 new job positions to it’s mapping/location services to help improve on their already stellar map performance.
“We’ve been perfecting digital maps for more than 15 years in the Chicago area,” said Ogi Redzic, vice president, traffic, at Nokia Location & Commerce. “To help achieve that, we’re actively recruiting for employees in Chicago.”
It’s always great to hear that Nokia is expanding rather than the usual news of cutbacks and layoffs (I know Chicago isn’t Finland.. but this is still good news). Regarding Chicago’s position in future Nokia developments and products, Chicago’s Mayor responded:
“We are making Chicago not only a center for technology, a center for research and development … in fact, the technology will now be developed, enhanced and shipped around the world to Nokia’s centers in the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) and other developing economies,”
(thanks for the tip Alan)
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Nice,
Quite like Chicago…
lays off 10k from euro nokia…….hires 100 americans
hires americans, argentinians for the factory there and for the other factories in asia like the new one in vietnam. this is what restructuring means some time, not just lay offs and downsizing
+1
office is in EUROPE….why does he HAVE to hire americans…if you’ve noticed all the european employees are all getting removed from nokia for US people….FFS you aren’t smart at what is going on at nokia
You may recall that Navteq was/is an American company, based in Chicago. But yeah, instead they should relocate the whole operation, or even better, split it into say 20 units around the world. :- P
Your blind hate for eveyrthing US related is really affecting your overal vision, as illustrated by Viipottaja above.
um no
Um yes. Your laconic diatribe is becoming irksome.
its is weird though, i mean we live in a global economy but everybody is so paranoid about each other . half the america presidential debate seems to be about how american jobs are going to china. car plant closes in Belgium and move to Spain and its headline news.
i will never begrudge another place for getting jobs. but it seems alot of people now see everything as a win/lose.
when it comes to job creation.
It’s the way a lot of humans think, it always needs to go better. As long as all things go well nobody is worried, no that the economic climate is changing, fear starts running rampant.
In that light, I find is preposterous to think that the economy can grow year after year after year. That would mean that there needs to be consumed more and more each year otherwise the economy slows down. That is not how we can sustain ourselves. The world has been living large over the past few years and now we are paying the price for that.
BRICs countries. It could be problematic while countries like China or Russia can have some fears around independence of services and may not want to accept participations of 3rd sides – direct or indirect, especially governmental. Regulations designed against terrorism and also others creates reality where several small parts can be used to infiltrate or for political info sources, or just in not acceptable way. Some may say this is sci-fi but considering more then advanced warms or some cyberattacks or collecting data about user without awareness&confirmation by user – observed recently – it can be reality of our times. And future also.
Time will tell. Hope Nokia will get back to good condition and will not be sticked like a kind of slave to The-Only-One-Correct-Sysytem for ever.
Couldn’t Oulu or Salo cater to the developing countries?
What’s so special about Chicago?
This move must’ve been in the works for months now, so who knows.
chicago is where the map guys are
Navteq is in Chicago
Good!
Nokia seems to have had this weird idea to have their offices outside of major cities to save money… but not in the actual cities. Way to marginalize yourselves! The highly motivated young talent want to be in the center of major metropolitan areas…they don’t want to go head straight to early retirement in Westchester!
Too bad I’m 110 miles away from Chicago….otherwise I’d put my resume in for consideration.
Yes Finns keep moving. Best of times for EU tech