[Via Chicago]

Hundreds laid off at Chicago-based Motorola Mobility

Chicago-based Motorola Mobility is shrinking again: Lenovo said Monday it was laying off hundreds of its 55,000 employees, with the majority of the cuts at Moto.

Beijing-based Lenovo said in a statement the cuts affect "less than two percent" of its global employees and are part of its ongoing integration with its Motorola smartphone business. Two percent of its workforce would be 1,100 people.

Lenovo would not comment on which teams or global locations were affected by the cuts. Moto's Chicago office had more than 1,600 employees in March 2016, but the company did not say how many local employees it had before Monday's cuts.

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