The Korean tech giant, scheduled to hand out the OPI incentives to its employees on January 26, has decided to cut the incentive rate for the mobile business employees from 50 per cent to 17 per cent, according to news reports on December 20. The cut is mainly due to the Note 7 recall which Samsung said would cost it more than 3 trillion won ($2.5 billion) in the last quarter of this year and the first three months next year.