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Sony to Eliminate 10,000 Jobs
TOKYO—Sony Corp. 6758.TO +0.61%plans to reduce its work force by an estimated 10,000 jobs, or roughly 6% of its global total, as part of a broader restructuring plan by Chief Executive Kazuo Hirai, people familiar with the matter said Monday.
The cuts could be made over the next two fiscal years, ending in March 2014, though the timing hasn't been settled, the people said. The potential cuts were the first details to emerge of Mr. Hirai's restructuring plan since he succeeded Howard Stringer as CEO this month. The plan is expected to be announced at a corporate strategy meeting on Thursday.
TOKYO—Sony Corp. 6758.TO +0.61%plans to reduce its work force by an estimated 10,000 jobs, or roughly 6% of its global total, as part of a broader restructuring plan by Chief Executive Kazuo Hirai, people familiar with the matter said Monday.
The cuts could be made over the next two fiscal years, ending in March 2014, though the timing hasn't been settled, the people said. The potential cuts were the first details to emerge of Mr. Hirai's restructuring plan since he succeeded Howard Stringer as CEO this month. The plan is expected to be announced at a corporate strategy meeting on Thursday.
Further cuts are expected in the television-set division, where Sony is forecast to be unprofitable for an eighth straight year, the people said. Last year Mr. Hirai, then in charge of Sony's TV-set business, scrapped a goal of selling 40 million sets a year. Instead, he decided to target annual sales of 20 million units and adjust the size of Sony's TV-sales operations, the people said.
The restructuring will be the company's second major overhaul in four years. In late 2008, during the global financial crisis, Mr. Stringer eliminated 16,000 jobs and closed factories. As of March 2011, Sony had 168,200 employees world-wide.
Messrs. Stringer and Hirai and five other executive officers are expected to forgo their bonuses for the fiscal year that ended in March, the people said.
Sony's plan to reduce its work force was first reported by Japan's Nikkei newspaper on Monday.
In a sign of the importance of the TV-set operations, Sony last month unveiled an organizational chart that eliminated a layer of management between the head of the TV business and the CEO so Mr. Hirai could oversee the division directly.
Last week, Mr. Hirai pledged to spread cutting-edge technologies from its professional products to more mass-market products. One example was Sony's 4K technology, a display and imaging method for presenting moving images four times sharper than existing high-definition video.
（中央社台北9日電）日本經濟新聞（Nikkei）報導，預期連續第4年出現虧損的日本最大電子產品出口商─索尼（Sony Corp.），將裁減約1萬個工作機會，占其總勞力約6%。
日經指出，索尼對化工和中小型面板業務進行重整後，最多將先淘汰5000人。記者以電話跟索尼發言人聯絡時，他拒絕就這份報導置評。
在消費者紛紛投向三星電子（SamsungElectronicsCo.）和蘋果（Apple Inc.）產品的懷抱之下，甫於1日接下史特林格（Howard Stringer）社長和執行長職務的平井一夫（Kazuo Hirai），矢言將採取「令人痛苦」的措施讓公司轉虧為盈。
索尼飽受強勁日圓，去年泰國水災導致產量減少，及解散與三星共組的顯示器合資企業成本之苦，2月時將年度虧損預測提高逾1倍至2200億日圓（27億美元）。
索尼在東京證交所漲幅一度高達1.4%，報1656日圓，盤中一度下跌2.1%至1600日圓。索尼今年至今累漲20%，去年則計跌53%。
根據彭博彙整的資料，截至3月31日止，索尼擁有16萬8200人。（譯者：中央社陳昱婷）
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