Samsung executives will wait to see if their work will be rewarded with promotion at the company's annual performance review even though the company halted the production of its Galaxy Note 7. This year, that tension has been ramped up several notches as the year-end ritual comes on the heels of the debacle over Samsung's flagship Galaxy Note 7 smartphone. None of the Samsung employees Reuters talked to for this article wanted to be named as they were not authorised to speak to the media. Koh and other Samsung executives have been active on internal messaging boards, discussing with employees how to deal with the Note 7 crisis, insiders said. About 70 percent of Samsung's more than 325,000 employees work outside South Korea.

Source: dna October 19, 2016 10:41 UTC