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Sony Mobile to Move HQ to Japan with Loss of 1,000 Swedish Jobs
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Sony Mobile has announced that it is to cut around 15 percent of its workforce, equivalent to 1000 personnel, including consultants by the end of March 2014, with most of the losses taking place in Sweden.
The company, which was formerly a joint venture between Sony and Ericcson, is also moving its corporate headquarters and certain other functions from Sweden to Japan. Sony Mobile has also redefined the roles and responsibilities of each major development site to leverage the strengths of each respective site.
"Sony has identified the mobile business as one of its core businesses and the Xperia smartphone portfolio continues to gain momentum with customers and consumers worldwide," said Kunimasa Suzuki, President and CEO of Sony Mobile. "We are accelerating the integration and convergence with the wider Sony group to continue enhancing our offerings, and a more focused and efficient operational structure will help to reduce Sony Mobile's costs, enhance time to market efficiency and bring the business back to a place of strength."
Today Sony Mobile filed a redundancy notification ("varsel") with the Swedish authorities to notify them that the company expects around 650 employees across a number of functions at Sony Mobile in Lund to be affected by job closures. The remaining headcount reductions will be primarily consultants in Sweden. Lund will continue to be an strategic site for Sony Mobile, with the main focus on software and application development.
Tags: [sony mobile] [Sweden]
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