I had recently posted that Sony Ericsson plans to close some locations and lay off 2,000 individuals. The latest news is that Sony Ericsson has announced it would close down the research and development (R&D) facility in Chennai (India), the global hub for development work on entry level phones since 2007.
The company said the closure was part of its business transformation programme aimed at consolidation and that it was making organizational changes to reduce costs and increase efficiencies. "The principal aim of the company is to return to profitability as soon as possible," it said in a press release. The company will terminate about 2,000 jobs by mid-2010, including around 60 people in Chennai.
"The Chennai R&D centre had engineers working on the development of entry level phones for Sony Ericsson. The centre had less than 60 people working there," Aldo Liguori, corporate vice-president and head of global communications & public relations, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, told TOI.
Sony Ericsson has R&D centres in Japan, Sweden, Netherlands, the US, the UK and China.
When asked if there was a possibility of accommodating these 60 employees elsewhere, Liguori said, "We do not have that detail at this moment. This decision has been part of the initial meetings. But the total plan across the centres around the world is that about 2,000 people will be terminated. Already, about 400 employees were terminated across various locations starting October," he said.
Via: Times of India
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