Sony Mobile has a reorganization announced in which it has its headquarters in the Swedish city of Lund are going to move to Tokyo. In addition, the mobile branch of Sony plan to have about a thousand jobs to delete.
According to Sony should be the move of the headquarters of the mobile branch to ensure that there will be more integration with the rest of the company. The office in Lund was formerly the headquarters of Sony Ericsson, but this joint-venture is no more. In the Swedish city of remain Sony-employees still on software and applications work. Moreover, Sony Mobile has a head office in London.
Sony Mobile is in addition to the move of the head office also jobs are deleted. About a thousand workers worldwide are losing their jobs. Sony hopes that this process in march 2014 is completed. The redundancies are about 15 percent of the total number of employees that Sony Mobile has.
By the mobile branch to Tokyo to bring the different divisions of Sony more to integrate. Sony has its general headquarters in the Japanese capital. The displacement and the elimination of jobs must ensure that the costs are to be printed.
Previously, Sony already known that there are about thousands of jobs to be deleted, because the company is going to cut in the product portfolio. In addition, the Xperia smartphonetak and the Vaio-the department has already merged.