BlackBerry responds to our article on its salesforce cuts

Following our article yesterday about cuts to BlackBerry’s salesforce, several media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, CNET, and The Next Web ran their own articles on the subject.

This morning, BlackBerry responded. We print their response here, unedited.

“I wanted to follow-up on your story today regarding our salesforce news.

I’d like to clarify that we are moving a small number of US-focused sales roles that were based in Canada to the U.S. to be more closely aligned with our customers. As a result, approximately 60 employees have been impacted, primarily in sales.

As previously stated, we are in the second phase of our transformation plan. As part of this transformation, BlackBerry will continually evaluate its organization – from top to bottom – to ensure we have the right people, with the right skills in the right locations to drive new opportunities in mobile computing.

Lisette Kwong

Senior Manager, Corporate Communications
BlackBerry”

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