Saturday, October 20, 2012

Sony to lay off more than 2,800 employees in Japan as restructuring continues

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When Kaz Harai announced his "One Sony" strategy to get the company back on its feet, the new CEO explained that the initiative would include a workforce reduction of up to 10,000 employees by the end of its 2012 fiscal year. Since that announcement, Sony has slowly released details on exactly where those cuts will be made — roughly 1,000 jobs were cut as Sony Mobile moves its headquarters back from Sweden to Tokyo, and now the company has just announced information on a further 2,840 layoffs.


As part of the latest round of restructuing, production of interchangeable lenses for DSLRs, lens blocks, and mobile phones at Sony's Minokamo Site will be absorbed by the company's Kohda Site. As a result, the Minokamo Site, which accounts for...


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via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/20/3530236/sony-layoffs-retirement-minokamo-headquarters

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