8% of the workforce has been cut

According to Kotaku, we’re well over last years head count in layoffs.

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Wait, this Sony?

Sony’s profits up thanks to rising sales of music, games, movies and sensors. https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/national/sony-s-profits-up-thanks-to-rising-sales-of-music-games-movies-and-sensors/ar-BB1ifEUl

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And when they again need people, they’ll whine about how no one wants to work for them. Or how workers are “taking advantage.”

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No war but the class war

Carighan Maconar
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Yeah but as the shareholders get used to companies laying off workers to “cut costs”, any company not doing it sees their shares tank. Which is Not Ok™️, so they keep firing people so the execs can pay themselves bigger and bigger bonuses over high stock prices.

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