Monday 9 August 2010

Sony removes 16 000 posts

Sony removes 16 000 posts


The financial crisis is also the Japanese electronics giant Sony hard. Worldwide falling away 16 000 jobs. This is the heaviest job cuts by a Japanese company since the Great Depression. hstnn-lb31 battery



Affected are 8000 permanent employees in the electronics sector, also fall off 8000 workers' time points. The jobs are to the end of next financial year on 1 April 2009 began to be dismantled, as the group announced today.


The end of September Sony still employed 160,000 people in the world by the crisis hit hard electronics. The previously planned investments in the sector should be reduced for the next fiscal year by 30 percent. Sony also plans to reduce investment, production and outsource part from unprofitable businesses. Until March 2010 In addition to his works are closed. lenovo ideapad u450p battery


In this way, Sony will save more than 100 billion yen (340 million euros). The Playstation manufacturer had recently slashed its earnings expectations for the current year drastically.