Wipro Technologies is in negotiations with employee representatives as the firm plans up to 85 job cuts across Finland.

Indian IT services exporter, Wipro currently provides the telecom segment with IT services including global firms such as Ericsson and Nokia.

In the past year, the industry sector has been proved somewhat challenging, although the company during its recent third quarter results has said that there has been some demand returning.

“After carefully considering all possible options, the company has decided to enter into a negotiation process with the employees given the challenging industry situation within telecom R&D,” said Wipro Technologies.

The company has however said, that operations in locations of Helsinki, Tampere, Turku and Seinajoki are all expected to continue with virtually no interrupted.