Sony Mobile will let go 200 staff from Swedish office as it tries to halve costs

Sony Mobile has been losing money and market share and the parent company has come up with a plan to address the first part - it will cut t...

Sony Mobile has been losing money and market share and the parent company has come up with a plan to address the first part - it will cut the division's expenses in half over the next several years. This starts with a round of downsizing at the office in Lund, Sweden. This office was formerly the HQ of Sony Mobile, but that moved to Tokyo years ago. Still, the Lund office employs some 1,200 people. There aren't many details known, but it seems like 800 of those are directly employed by Sony Mobile, while the rest of the staf there are contractors or working for other divisions. Of those...

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