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Sony Ericsson to lay off 450 RTP employees |
tranced
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Sony Ericsson will lay off 450 workers from its Research Triangle Park location, the headquarters of the company’s North American operations.
Workers were told of the news Monday morning in a mandatory all-staff meeting at the Sheraton Imperial Hotel in Durham.
Aldo Ligouri, Sony Ericsson’s head of global communications and public relations, confirmed the layoffs. Ligouri says the RTP cuts are part of company-wide changes that Sony Ericsson announced in July. At that time, the company said it would lay off 2,000 workers worldwide to adjust to tough market conditions.
“This is our map of how we see things moving forward,” Ligouri said.
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mario2004
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Yeah, the workers are not needed anymore  After Nokia bought symbian is all s60 now ! Next year this time,SE should finaly announce their first s60 device - better late then never
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Jimster71
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They are also closing the Manchester site in the UK, where the open phones are currently developed. |
strizlow800
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Sony ericsson with symbian S60... That would be awful... The current non-smartphone  OS is great. And smartphones running UIQ are great too. Maybe they can start cooperating after all... 
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tranced
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The 97 percent they lost is the guilty of all this. Maybe this year could be better for them.
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strizlow800
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It should be... This year (2009) they are launching pretty good allrounder that may change the history of  and bring back the old K750/W800 days. So if that phone is successful, it will be a good year for indeed. But they shouldn't relax after all... Next camera barrier of 10MP or more should be broken soon. They better not be behind other manufacturers.
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QVGA
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This is our map of how we're going to go bankrupt
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strizlow800
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On 2008-09-30 11:54:43, QVGA wrote:
This is our map of how we're going to go bankrupt
What do you mean by that. No one is going to bankrupt.
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Muhammad-Oli
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It's a little unclear from that report, but as far as I can tell from the reports of these sackings, this is the undertaking of that plan to sack 2000 employees that we all heard about earlier this year. So 2000 will be sacked globally and this 450 is part of that. It's in an effort to save $350 million as far as I know.
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Brightspark
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On 2008-09-30 12:52:28, strizlow800 wrote:
On 2008-09-30 11:54:43, QVGA wrote:
This is our map of how we're going to go bankrupt
What do you mean by that. No one is going to bankrupt.
well, not yet anyway. this is an effort to ward off eventual bankruptcy. unfortunately, it has been shown that the most inefficient and incompetent companies resort to redundancies as a knee jerk reaction(ie the CEO's and upper managements need to be seen to be making changes), whilst the best companies only lay off staff as a VERY LAST resort. the former fail to realise that laying off staff is only good in the short term, and very bad in the long term.......as SE may well eventually discover for themselves. not least, it creates a negative organisational culture.
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WhyBe
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Maybe SE is going to reduce it's product lines. Therefore, they wouldn't need as many people.  |
strizlow800
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Well they should reduce producing low end and mid end phones... They can focus on high ends only. That would bring them upper in the market...
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