Sharp wants to five thousand jobs, reports financial news agency. This would be the total number of disappearing jobs in the electronics giant amount to ten thousand, or 18 percent of the number of employees.
It is not clear whether redundancies will fall, but given the high number of jobs that will disappear, it seems almost inevitable. If the news from Bloomberg is correct, it goes to a staff reduction of a total of 18 percent.
In addition to the elimination of jobs would be Sharp are planning to release a number of factories to sell, where tv programmes are made. Sharp is, according to the sources, talking with Foxconn over the sale of three of the factories. In addition, Sharp is according to the Japanese Kyodo News of plan to stop the manufacture and sales of solar panels.