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Originally Posted by vivaldirules
I hate reading things like this. I couldn't care less about the short-term future of the Sony Readers. The fear and havoc that comes with such large scale layoffs is depressing.
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It's not really "large scale" in the overall scheme of things. 5% job losses within a division of a company can generally be achieved without anyone being made compulsorily redundant through such things as early retirement, offering people good deals to leave voluntarily, a block on new recruitment, etc.
In the 15 years I've worked for my current employer, it's gone through a number of such exercises, most recently only a few months ago.