Sony Cutting Jobs Too, But Not From Games
Navifairy already talked earlier about possible cutbacks at EA, but it looks like Sony is trimming it's workforce too.
Sony will curb investments, outsource production and move away from unprofitable businesses by March 2010 to save more than 100 billion yen ($1.1 billion) a year, the company said today. The cuts include 8,000 full-time employees, or 5 percent of the company's electronics workforce, and another 8,000 part-time and seasonal workers, Sony said.
It looks like most of these cuts are in the electronics division, which would make sense. Nobody wants a TV that costs thousands of dollars when their job may be next on the block.
Sony Will Cut 16,000 Jobs as Recession Curbs Demand [Bloomburg]
[via: GamePolitics]
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Posted to Miscellany, Video Games on 9 December 2008
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