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Sony Mobile cuts 1000 workers in Sweden
June 14, 2025
SonyMobile has certainly dropped from its previous high atop the smartphone pile and the Japanese manufacturer has announced that almost 1000 of its Swedish workforce will be let go as part of a wider restructuring initiative, which is designed to push the handset maker towards profitability.
The layoffs – at one of Sony’s key manufacturing and R&D centres – consists of 575 staff and 400 contract positions, covering both administrative positions and technical staff. The cuts will mean that Sony’s Swedish workforce will be reduced by almost half, with only 1200 employees remaining in the Scandinavian country.
Earlier this year, the company announced that the handset maker wouldlay off 2100 employees in its mobile division, bringing the total to around 5000 employees and last week, the company announced that its North West Europe President was also leaving the company as part of the wider restructuring shuffle.
In a statement toTechCrunch, the company confirmed the cuts were part of the wider restructuring efforts:
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Sony have been widely reported to consider selling its smartphone division but the company has denied these claims. Earlier this year, Sony vowed to make the division profitable by next year and the company’s latest handset – theXperia Z4– was announced last month. TheXperia Z4 may be perfect for Japanbut its European variant – which goesunder the Xperia Z3+ moniker– iscertainly not the flagship smartphone we were all waiting and hoping for.
Whether these improvements and changes are enough remains to be seen, but with the company dropping off the Top 10 global smartphone makers list, the immediate future certainly looks bleak.
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