The once-strong mobile company will hand out pink slips worldwide come June 1, Canada's Globe and Mail is reporting.
Troubled BlackBerry maker Research In Motion is planning a major global restructuring that will include at least 2,000 layoffs worldwide, according to a report.
Canada's Globe and Mail cites "several people close to the company" in reporting the news about the Waterloo, Ontario-based company, which, the Globe and Mail says, has about 16,500 employees globally.
The paper said the layoffs "will sweep across departments, ranging from senior positions in RIM's legal division to human resources, finance, sales, and marketing" and that the pink slips will go out June 1, a day before RIM's first quarter ends -- if not earlier.
The report is not exactly unexpected. During a March 29 conference call, CEO Thorstein Heins said, "It's clear to me substantial change is what we need." RIM swung to a loss in its fiscal fourth quarter amid an 80 percent plunge in BlackBerry shipments from a year ago. Apple andAndroid phones meanwhile have seen their shipments soar.
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