As Samsung and Apple continue to stamp out every remnant of competition left in the marketplace, some of the biggest names in wireless technology have been forced to let go of considerable portions of their staff. Nokia is perhaps the most prominent of all the smartphone manufacturers that couldn't keep up, shrinking from 24,000 employees in its home country of Finland to just 10,600 by the end of last year. Profits were down, the outlook was bleak, but as the BBC reports, Nokia made sure that its displaced employees were given every opportunity to land on their feet.
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