Hmm...
With this and Psygnosis/SCE, Sony are really pulling back on foreign investments. Has the Enfield warehouse been relocated/rebuilt/reopened yet?
Sony Mobile is moving its headquarters from Sweden to Tokyo, where parent group Sony Corporation is headquartered, and laying off 1,000 people as it reshapes the company it took total control of back in February. Most of the layoffs will be in Lund, Sweden, where 650 staff will lose their jobs thanks to the closure of the old …
Having spent time in two companies in Lund (a lovely place) I am not that surprised. People don't work more than three days a week, Friday is for lottery and chatting, monday for dropping in late. There seems to be one secretary for every three persons and at least two cellphones for anybody higher up. Then there is the kitchen, chauffeurs and what not. The number of bosses outnumbers anything else in the company. Programming tasks are given to the youngest girls as programming is below anything decent well paid people do. So if the company is an IT company I would estimate that out of the 650 persons some 25 actually produce something. And most of them do it at home rather than at work. Still the interesting thing is that a company like that can do very well provided they have at least a couple of persons who provide.