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Nokia Headquarters & offices · Espoo, Finland
Nokia · Espoo, Finland
Ten Nobel prizes on display at the Espoo headquarters, where about 2,850 people work beside Nokia's largest testing laboratory.
The Espoo campus, the benefits and 160 years of moves — from a pulp mill on the Tammerkoski rapids to Karakaari 7. Every number from Nokia's annual reports, nokia.com and the architects' own pages.
- ≈ 2,850people on the Espoo HQ campus
- 10Bell Labs Nobel prizes on display at HQ
- 90 daysminimum paid new-child leave, any gender
- 1865founded on the Tammerkoski rapids, Tampere
Sources: nokia.com careers (Finland), Executive Experience Center Espoo, people strategy 2022 · Form 20-F 2025, 2021, 2014, 2012
Companies / Finland / Telecom equipment / Nokia
THE HEADQUARTERS · ESPOO CAMPUS · KARAKAARI
A research campus with Nokia's largest testing lab and a museum of Nobel prizes
Nokia's global headquarters is a campus in Espoo, part of the Helsinki metropolitan area. About 2,850 people work there on networks and cloud products; it houses Nokia's largest testing laboratory, is a hub for Nokia Technologies and is home to Nokia Bell Labs Espoo. Visitors meet Nokia in the Executive Experience Center, furnished with traditional Finnish décor and materials and showing artifacts from Nokia's history — including ten Nobel prizes won by Bell Labs scientists.
- ≈ 2,850 people on campus
- Nokia's largest testing lab
- Executive Experience Center: 560 m² (≈ 6,028 sq ft)
- 4,000+ visitors a year
- Nokia Bell Labs Espoo
- One of Nokia's largest R&D sites
The Espoo campus today
Nokia's global headquarters is a campus in Espoo, where about 2,850 people work and Nokia's largest testing laboratory is located.
Lobby and Executive Experience Center
Visitors meet Nokia in the 560 m² Executive Experience Center, which receives more than 4,000 visitors a year.
Karaportti campus before the move (2007–2011)
After closing the sale of its phone business to Microsoft in April 2014, Nokia relocated its headquarters to the Karaportti campus in Espoo.
Facts: nokia.com careers (Finland) · nokia.com Executive Experience Center Espoo · nokia.com Bell Labs Espoo · Noisy Studio project page “Nokia · Executive Experience Center · Espoo”
The Espoo headquarters campus
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| Nokia Head Office | Karakaari 7, FI-02610 Espoo, Finland |
| Executive Experience Center | Karakaari 18, 02610 Espoo, Finland |
Source: Form 20-F 2025 (contact information) · nokia.com Executive Experience Center Espoo · See them on the map ↓
Source: nokia.com careers (Finland) · nokia.com Executive Experience Center Espoo · Noisy Studio project page · Form 20-F 2014
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Benefits (Finland, plus global minimums)
At least 90 calendar days of paid family leave for every new parent, any gender, for births and adoptions, plus a right to return for up to one year.
Every employee's family receives at least one year's capped gross base salary.
Buy Nokia shares monthly from net salary for 12 months; Nokia adds one matching share for every two you still hold.
Flexible and hybrid working arrangements to support work–life balance.
Edenred benefit voucher, €400 a year.
Gyms at every Finnish site, plus occupational health services and reimbursed spectacle lenses.
Confidential support for all employees and their families in challenging situations.
Based on individual and company performance.
Source: nokia.com/careers/our-locations/finland · nokia.com people strategy (2022: New Child Leave, Global Life Insurance) · Form 20-F 2025 (employee share purchase plan)
Why people stay: what Nokia itself describes
Around 280 internal coaches and around 400 mentors available to employees (2021).
The flexible working approach from 2022 allows up to three remote days a week on average, subject to business need, plus flexible hours.
A technical career path, job rotation, coaching and digital learning platforms (Finland).
Confidential support for employees and their families, in their native language.
Listed among Nokia's health and well-being support in Finland.
In 2021 every employee got an extra day of paid annual leave to switch off and reset.
Source: Form 20-F 2021 (Our people, Wellbeing) · nokia.com/careers/our-locations/finland
Who works here
countries of operation
women in global leadership (2025)
employees in Finland, about 80 nationalities
of the 12-member Group Leadership Team are women
Source: Form 20-F 2025 (regional split of employees, STI diversity outcomes, Group Leadership Team) · nokia.com/careers/our-locations/finland. “Other” = Greater China 7,200, Asia Pacific 3,900, Latin America 2,800, Middle East & Africa 2,800.
Office history: from a pulp mill on the rapids to the Espoo campus
- 1865 A wood-pulp mill on the Tammerkoski rapids, Tampere
Mining engineer Fredrik Idestam founded his first wood-pulp mill in southern Finland in 1865 — on the Tammerkoski rapids in Tampere, as Nokia's Finland careers page puts it.
Source: nokia.com “Historiamme” (our history) · nokia.com/careers/our-locations/finland
Tampere wood-pulp mill, 1870s · Ekman Karl / Public domain · Wikimedia Commons - 1860s A second mill on the Nokianvirta river gives the company its name
A few years later, expecting demand for pulp to grow, Idestam built a second mill by the Nokianvirta river. The place inspired the company's name: Nokia Ab.
Source: nokia.com “Historiamme” (our history)
Nokianvirta river and Tehdassaari island, Nokia · kallerna / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 1967 Three companies become Nokia Corporation
Nokia AB (the 1865 pulp mill), Finnish Rubber Works (1898) and Finnish Cable Works (1912) merged into Nokia Corporation. Cable Works' electronics department, set up in 1960, had taken Nokia into telecoms.
Source: Form 20-F 2012, history and development of the company
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1996–97 Nokia House, Keilalahti — glass, steel and wood by the sea
Pekka Helin's team won the 1994–95 competition for a new headquarters at Keilalahti, Espoo: two cubic volumes around large atriums, two auditoriums, and the first double-skin façade in the Nordic countries. The building was being completed in late 1996; it was later extended with a curved tower. Address: Keilalahdentie 4.
Source: Helin & Co Architects project page “Nokia Headquarters” · Form 20-F 2012 (address)
Nokia House, Keilalahti · © Helin & Co Architects - 2012 The headquarters building is sold
As part of its restructuring Nokia completed the divestment of its headquarters building in Finland, while still giving Keilalahdentie 4 as its principal executive office.
Source: Form 20-F 2012
Main entrance, Nokia House, Keilalahti · Sektori / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2014 To the Karaportti campus
After closing the sale of its phone business to Microsoft in April 2014, Nokia relocated its headquarters to the Karaportti campus in Espoo. Microsoft has used premises in the Keilalahti complex since 2014.
Source: Form 20-F 2014 · Helin & Co Architects project page
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - Today Karakaari 7, Espoo
The Nokia Head Office address is Karakaari 7, Espoo. About 2,850 people work on the campus, which also holds Nokia's largest testing lab, Bell Labs Espoo and the Executive Experience Center.
Source: Form 20-F 2021 and 2025 · nokia.com careers (Finland)
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Map: how the headquarters moved
From the Tammerkoski rapids in Tampere and the Nokianvirta river that gave the company its name, to Espoo: a seaside headquarters at Keilalahti, then the Karaportti/Karakaari campus a few kilometres inland.
- 1 · 1865Tammerkoski rapids, Tampere — Fredrik Idestam's first wood-pulp mill
- 2 · 1860sNokianvirta river, Nokia — The second mill, which gave Nokia its name
- 3 · 1996–2014Nokia House, Keilalahdentie 4, Espoo — Headquarters by Helin & Co; sold in 2012
- 4 · 2014Karaportti 3, Espoo — Headquarters moves to the Karaportti campus
- 5 · TodayKarakaari 7, Espoo — Nokia Head Office
Addresses: nokia.com history and careers pages · Form 20-F 2012, 2014, 2025 · Helin & Co Architects · Locations: OpenStreetMap
What Nokia does
Nokia began as a wood-pulp mill, became a conglomerate of rubber, cables, paper and electronics, led the mobile-phone market from 1998, and sold its phone business to Microsoft in 2014. Today it builds the networks underneath mobile, fixed, cloud and AI data centers, and licenses its patents.
In 2025 four segments: Network Infrastructure, Mobile Networks, Cloud and Network Services, and Nokia Technologies. From January 1, 2026: two primary segments, Network Infrastructure and Mobile Infrastructure.
Where the money came from · Net sales by segment, 2025
Source: Form 20-F 2025, segment information (net sales to external customers)
Source: Form 20-F 2025 (consolidated income statement, net sales by customer type, remuneration report)
Growth: revenue vs. people
€23.3B → €19.9B
98,322 → 78,005
Net sales and average employees, continuing operations. 2019–2021: Form 20-F 2021. 2022–2025: Form 20-F 2025 (2022–2023 recast after Submarine Networks became a discontinued operation in 2024; 2022 employees not given on that basis). Multiples calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
President and CEO since April 1, 2025. More than 25 years at global technology companies, with expertise in AI and data center markets.
President and CEO from August 1, 2020 to March 31, 2025, then advisor to his successor until the end of 2025.
President and CEO until July 31, 2020.
Founder: mining engineer Fredrik Idestam (1865).
Source: Form 20-F 2025 and 2021 · nokia.com “Historiamme”
Nokia: questions people ask
Where is Nokia's headquarters?
At Karakaari 7, 02610 Espoo, Finland, part of the Helsinki metropolitan area. Nokia moved its headquarters to this Espoo campus (then called the Karaportti campus) in 2014.
Source: Form 20-F 2025 · Form 20-F 2014
How many people work at Nokia's Espoo headquarters?
About 2,850 people work on the Espoo campus. Nokia has around 6,600 employees in Finland, from about 80 nationalities, and about 78,000 worldwide (2025 average).
Source: nokia.com/careers/our-locations/finland · Form 20-F 2025
What is inside Nokia's headquarters?
Nokia's largest testing laboratory, a hub for Nokia Technologies (patent and brand licensing), Nokia Bell Labs Espoo and the Executive Experience Center, which shows artifacts from Nokia's history including ten Nobel prizes won by Bell Labs scientists.
Source: nokia.com careers (Finland) · nokia.com Executive Experience Center Espoo · nokia.com Bell Labs Espoo
Can you visit Nokia's headquarters?
The Executive Experience Center at Karakaari 18, Espoo, hosts customers, partners and governments — more than 250 visits and over 4,000 visitors a year. It is not described as open to the general public.
Source: nokia.com Executive Experience Center Espoo
Where was Nokia founded?
Fredrik Idestam founded his first wood-pulp mill in 1865 on the Tammerkoski rapids in Tampere. A second mill on the Nokianvirta river gave the company its name.
Source: nokia.com careers (Finland) · nokia.com “Historiamme”
What was Nokia House?
Nokia's former headquarters at Keilalahdentie 4 in Keilalahti, Espoo, designed by Pekka Helin's team with the first double-skin façade in the Nordic countries. Nokia sold the building in 2012 and moved out in 2014.
Source: Helin & Co Architects · Form 20-F 2012 and 2014
What benefits does Nokia offer?
Globally, at least 90 days of paid new-child leave for any parent and life insurance of at least one year's capped base salary. In Finland also a €400 Edenred voucher, gyms at every site, a 24/7 Personal Support Service, an annual bonus and the Share in Success plan (one free share for every two bought).
Source: nokia.com people strategy · nokia.com careers (Finland) · Form 20-F 2025
Does Nokia allow remote or hybrid work?
Yes. Nokia's flexible working approach, effective from 2022, allows employees (subject to business need) to work remotely up to three days a week on average, with more acceptance of fully remote work and flexible hours.
Source: Form 20-F 2021
How much do Nokia employees earn?
Nokia does not publish a median employee pay figure. Its annual report gives average salaries and wages of €80,367 per employee in 2025.
Source: Form 20-F 2025, remuneration report
Who is Nokia's CEO?
Justin Hotard, President and CEO since April 1, 2025. He succeeded Pekka Lundmark, CEO from August 2020.
Source: Form 20-F 2025 and 2021
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