“The joint venture broke the news to employees this morning at 8 a.m. in a company-wide meeting,” Murawski reports. “The closure, which is expected to happen in the coming months, is part of the company’s strategy to cut its worldwide staff of 10,000 by 20 percent, by shedding 2,000 people.”
Murawski reports, “The 8-year-old company has 425 workers left at its RTP site, about half the number of employees that worked here in recent years. The site includes customer support, customers service, sales, finance market and research and development. As it closes the North Carolina complex, Sony Ericsson is moving its North American headquarters to Atlanta, where currently it has 18 employees.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Edward W.” for the heads up.]
I WONDER WHERE SUPPORT IS GOING.
“…..As it closes the North Carolina complex, Sony Ericsson is moving its North American headquarters to Atlanta, where currently it has 18 employees.”…”
uhhh… wouldn’t it be cheaper just to move those 18 employees to North Carolina ?
MW = “working” — really– ya can’t make this stuff up !
good mornin’ Chrissy one !
What if the overall business climate (taxes, educational facilities, etc.) in Atlanta is better for the company than it is in North Carolina? There’s much more to setting up shop in a given economic zone than how many trucks you’ll need to relocate staff.
“….What if the overall business climate (taxes, educational facilities, etc.) in Atlanta is better for the company than it is in North Carolina? There’s much more to setting up shop in a given economic zone than how many trucks you’ll need to relocate staff….”
In this economic climate.. I don’t understand why North Carolina couldn’t “sweeten the pot” (as it were) – for Sony-Ericsson, …. to keep them there ..
After all, they did it for Steve Jobs– ya know– landing that Server Farm !
“uhhh… wouldn’t it be cheaper just to move those 18 employees to North Carolina ?”
They’re moving *jobs*, not people.
They might as well say Moving to Atlanta where they have 18 contract lawyers who will be tasked with shutting down the business and unraveling all the legal ties and filings…
It takes YEARS to shut down one of these joint ventures. Why people do them I have no idea. I have never heard of ONE of them making money or prospering.
Obama’s crowd will count this as saving 2500 jobs.
@ Ron
But they will assign it to the wrong district.
Hope that government healthcare works better than the government workers he employs. (sarcasm)
North Carolina is consistently voted as one of the best states for business. Depending on the survey, they are #1 in eight of the past nine years:
http://www.siteselection.com/portal/index.shtml
We’re just gettin’ rid of everyone to make more room for Apple. First Dell, now Sony Ericsson. : )
Well SE has this coming, they’ve been making crappy phones for YEARS and had no idea what a phone could be like until Apple showed them. Shut it down and.. well you know the rest
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@ron and Think
Glad to see you two posting. Your comments nicely refute the line on the other story that talked about “half of x didn’t have to be below the mean” by demonstrating that even though the mean here is pretty low, there are several who fall far, far below it.