Nearly 1,200 employees of Motorola Mobility Unit have been notified via an email about the job layoffs as the mobile company commits to return to profitability, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Motorola employees were informed about the challenges the company was facing with regards to the high costs, competitive markets and low profits, which they stated as the reason for the job layoffs. According to the email, reviewed by the Wall Street Journal, over 10 percent of Motorola Mobility Unit's workforce will be cut down.
The email sent to the employees this week said: "While we're very optimistic about the new products in our pipeline, we still face challenges," according to the Wall Street Journal.
The email also described challenges the mobile phone manufacturing company is currently facing. It said the company's, "costs are too high, we're operating in markets where we're not competitive and we're losing money."
Google's Motorola Mobile Unit had started the reduction in the workforce August 2012, which resulted in 4,000 employees or 20 percent of the company's workforce losing their jobs. This huge step was taken by the company to drive towards profitability.
According to a report by Reuters, the latest reduction in workforce will affect Motorola employees in the U.S, China and India.
"These cuts are a continuation of the reductions we announced last summer," the spokesperson told the Journal. "It's obviously very hard for the employees concerned, and we are committed to helping them through this difficult transition."
Google purchased the Motorola Mobile Unit for $12.5 billion May 2012, with an idea to use the company's patents to fight the legal attacks on its Android mobile platform. But later in December, Google sold Motorola's Home business to Arris Group Inc., a telecommunication equipment manufacturing company, for $2.35 billion in cash and stock, according to a CNET news report.
