{"id":13511,"date":"2024-02-27T17:38:12","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T16:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/27\/sony-to-lay-off-900-workers-in-its-playstation-division\/"},"modified":"2024-02-27T17:38:12","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T16:38:12","slug":"sony-to-lay-off-900-workers-in-its-playstation-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/27\/sony-to-lay-off-900-workers-in-its-playstation-division\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony to lay off 900 workers in its PlayStation division"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Company will cut 8% of workforce, citing changes in industry and a need to \u2018deliver on expectations from developers and gamers\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>Sony will cut about 900 jobs in its PlayStation division, or about 8% of its global workforce, becoming the latest company in the technology and gaming sector to announce layoffs.<\/p>\n<p>The company cited changes in the industry as a reason for the restructuring. The job cuts will occur in the Americas, Japan, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Asia Pacific region.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/feb\/27\/sony-layoffs-playstation-900-workers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/be3810a667492875b9508adc1c1c1f50d780f269\/314_526_4348_2610\/master\/4348.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=fe92fac079716baa760f55f070893c49\" title=\"Sony to lay off 900 workers in its PlayStation division\" \/>Company will cut 8% of workforce, citing changes in industry and a need to \u2018deliver on expectations from developers and gamers\u2019<br \/>\nSony will cut about 900 jobs in its PlayStation division, or about 8% of its global workforce, becoming the latest company in the technology and gaming sector to announce layoffs.<br \/>\nThe company cited changes in the industry as a reason for the restructuring. The job cuts will occur in the Americas, Japan, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Asia Pacific region. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Company will cut 8% of workforce, citing changes in industry and a need to \u2018deliver on expectations from developers and gamers\u2019 Sony will cut about 900 jobs in its PlayStation division, or about 8% of its global workforce, becoming the latest company in the technology and gaming sector to announce layoffs. The company cited changes &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/27\/sony-to-lay-off-900-workers-in-its-playstation-division\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sony to lay off 900 workers in its PlayStation division<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13511"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}